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Hearing Loss, Aging & Speech Understanding

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1.  What cues affect speech understanding?
  1. Stress pattern
  2. Visual cues
  3. Sentence context and Situational cues
  4. All of the above
2.  Aging will typically NOT cause declines in:
  1. Physical strength
  2. I.Q.
  3. Memory encoding
  4. Reaction time
3.  Complex environments can include:
  1. Stationary or Non-stationary, non-speech noise
  2. Distractions in other modalities
  3. Competing talkers
  4. All of the above
4.  Speech understanding is:
  1. A process of tracking a time-based series of events
  2. Typically paced by the listener, not the talker
  3. Based on hearing all phonemes in an utterance
  4. A & B
5.  Presbycusis is:
  1. Primarily a mechanical change in the inner ear
  2. Potential related to several different types of physiological changes
  3. Only a change in hair cell health
  4. Only a change in neural innervation
6.  Cognitive declines in normal aging are thought to be related to:
  1. Loss of vision only
  2. A specific site of lesion in the cortex
  3. A general slowing of neural firing
  4. Fluid buildup around neural cells
7.  Clear Speech is:
  1. Created only by Oticon hearing aids
  2. Created by patients with cognitive decline
  3. Is the same as talker louder
  4. None of the above
8.  Remote Mic Wireless technology:
  1. Only makes sense for children
  2. Can potentially help patients with cognitive decline by improving the S/N
  3. Has no impact on the S/N for adult users
  4. Is no longer an option with the emergence of RITE technology
9.  Word-list word recognition testing in quiet:
  1. Does not put the same time demands on the listener as normal conversation
  2. Taps into hidden cognitive delays that cannot be uncovered with the HINT
  3. Will reveal the full combined effects of hearing loss and cognitive decline
  4. Can only be given using the Clear Speech technique
10.  Follow-up training:
  1. Can only be given in groups
  2. Can only be given live & face-to-face
  3. Can overcome all effects of hearing loss and cognitive decline
  4. Can potentially mitigate the effects of speech understanding difficulties