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1.  For high school students, transition to work or college should start:
  1. When they graduate from high school
  2. First year of work/college
  3. Whenever the family/child indicates they are ready
  4. Early in the high school years, continuing toward graduation and into the next setting
2.  As a young adult transitions from high school to college, they should expect the following regarding accommodations and processes:
  1. Accommodations and processes will be the same in college
  2. Accommodations and processes will be better in college
  3. Accommodations and processes will poorer in college
  4. Students should not necessarily expect the same accommodations and processes in college.
3.  Previous work studying hearing loss and dementia has shown that:
  1. Hearing loss and dementia are unrelated
  2. Hearing loss causes dementia
  3. Patients with hearing loss who wear hearing aids will not develop dementia
  4. Untreated hearing loss is associated with a higher risk of dementia
4.  Cognitive assessment scores are likely to be poorer when:
  1. The patient has a hearing loss
  2. The patient has hearing loss and a lower level of education
  3. The patient is meeting the clinician for the first time
  4. The patient is anxious about the test
5.  Suggested care pathway choices after a failed cognitive assessment include:
  1. Psychiatrist
  2. Mental health counselor
  3. Primary care physician or geriatrician
  4. Occupational therapist
6.  After administering a cognitive assessment, the clinician should:
  1. Discuss results and provide clear next steps
  2. Not tell the patient about his or her results
  3. Wait to tell the patient about the results under they are confirmed by a retest
  4. Provide information about cognitive ability if the patient asks
7.  The OTC legislation was signed into law in:
  1. 2016
  2. 2017
  3. 2018
  4. Is still pending
8.  The OTC legislation provides for the following EXCEPT:
  1. Sale of both air conduction and wireless hearing devices to adults over 18 years of age
  2. PSAP are excluded from the regulations
  3. Specific pricing for this new class of devices
  4. The devices specifically are to address mild-moderate hearing losses
9.  The FDA must include in the final regulations all of the follow EXCEPT:
  1. Establish output limits and labeling requirements
  2. How consumers can report adverse effects to use of these devices
  3. Directs FDA to finalize its PSAP Guidance Document to clarify which products are medical devices
  4. A provision for inclusion of a hearing test by a hearing professional
10.  It is expected that the new class of OTC devices will:
  1. Expand the market
  2. Cannibalize the existing hearing aid market
  3. Have no impact on the existing market
  4. It is impossible to predict at this point
11.  The NASEM issues 12 recommendations. Which one of these has already been enacted?
  1. Improve Population-Based Information
  2. Improve Access to Hearing Health Care for Underserved and Vulnerable Populations
  3. Remove FDA Regulation for Medical Evaluation or Waiver to Purchase a Hearing Aid
  4. Improve Affordability of Hearing Health Care
12.  The systematic review of Ohlenfurst (2017) found:
  1. Listening effort was greater for normal hearing than for people with hearing loss
  2. Only behavioral tasks can be used to measure listening effort
  3. The EEG can be used for measuring listening effort
  4. The quality of the studies reviewed were rated "high"
13.  When comparing a manufacturer's NAL-NL2 fitting to the true NL2 fitting Amlani and colleagues found what regarding the true fitting:
  1. The manufacturer's fitting was about 7-10 dB below the true fitting
  2. The manufacturer's fitting was about 5-7 dB below the true fitting
  3. The manufacturer's fitting was about 2-4 dB below the true fitting
  4. The two different procedures were the same
14.  Leavitt et al compared actual fittings to NAL-NL2 prescriptive fittings. What percent were fitted>10 dB from the NAL-NL2 prescription?
  1. Around 70%
  2. Around 50%
  3. Around 25%
  4. Around 10%
15.  Baker and Jensted examined what percent of patients could be fitted within 5 dB of NAL target. They found it was around this percentage:
  1. 90%
  2. 70%
  3. 50%
  4. 25%