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School Audiology and Community Audiology Partnerships

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1.  School personnel need the following information about a child with hearing loss to build a foundation for services at school: An audiologic evaluation with information that includes audiogram and implications for educational impact of hearing loss Make, model, serial number, and color of hearing aid (s)/CI(s) Real ear measures and speech in noise assessment All of the above

2.  Which of these is NOT included in Erbers Hierarchy (1992)? Isolation Comprehension Identification Discrimination

3.  The impact of hearing loss for children in the classroom should focus on: Degree of hearing loss Functional impacts of the loss, including stress and fatigue Child's willingness to wear hearing aids Type of classroom placement for the child

4.  How many different categories does the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act Part B have? 5 10 20 13

5.  Parents of teens with hearing loss reported that information they most needed was: Funding for hearing aids Waking their children up in the morning Understanding the etiology of the hearing loss Genetics

6.  A hearing screening consideration for teens should be: Skipping screenings since it's costly and time consuming Screening all screening frequencies and adding 6000 Hz Using OAEs as screening protocol Referring to community audiology facilities if requested

7.  The major cause of balance issues in school aged children is: BPPV Otitis Media Diabetes Meniere's disease

8.  The center of the team should be: The child The audiologists involved The school team The parents

9.  Adolescents with hearing loss experience a ________ degree of bullying than their typically hearing peers: Lesser Same Significantly greater Negative

10.  A hearing aid consideration for children with hearing loss who are in school is: Color of the hearing aids Options for connectivity with FM technology Using directional mics Both B and C