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Unilateral Hearing Loss: Advocating for Children through Early Intervention Services and in the Classroom

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1.  Early Intervention providers can help families by offering: Helpful services such as occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech therapy to their children. Behavioral evaluations of their children. Help with assessing delays in their children. All of the above

2.  Unilateral hearing loss causes challenges such as: The inability to localize where sound is coming from and the risk for potential speech delays. There are no challenges. The inability to swim. The inability to wear a hearing device.

3.  What is the speech banana? It tells you to plug your ears to see what hearing loss sounds like. It improves hearing loss. A diagram that can help you understand what sounds your child may or may not be hearing based on their hearing loss. It tells the direction where sound is coming from.

4.  Bone conduction hearing devices such as Ponto offer helpful accessories that are compatible with: FM system Microphone TV box All of the above

5.  What contract can help a child obtain additional help and services while in the school classroom? The EAA An IEP HIPAA An insurance document

6.  Bone anchored hearing systems (BAHS) are intended for pediatric patients with? Conductive hearing losses Mixed hearing losses Single side deafness All of the above

7.  What is the intent of BrainHearing? To make as easy as possible for patients to listen To improve brain functioning To improve brain thinking None of the above

8.  Which of the following describes the candidacy group for Ponto 3 SuperPower the best? SuperPower is for patients with any mixed hearing losses SuperPower is for patients with mixed HL above 55 and below 65 dB HL SuperPower is beneficial for all patient groups (up to 65 dBHL) as all patients can benefit from higher max output SuperPower is beneficial for patients who find their own device too week

9.  What is the BrainHearing benefit attributed to Direct Sound Transmission? Recall Speech understanding Auditory processing All of the above

10.  Studies have demonstrated that access to extended bandwidth: Is key to for speech understanding Children learn new words 3 times quicker Improves sound quality All of the above