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20Q: Audiological Rehabilitation - Back to the Future

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1.  How does the author prefer to define aural rehabilitation? An activity performed by speech language pathologists to help reduce suffering for people who have hearing loss. A family-centered approach to assessment and management of hearing loss that encourages the creation of a therapeutic environment conducive to a shared decision process, which is necessary to explore and reduce the impact of hearing loss. Services designed to reduce the impact of Deafness on individuals and communities. Vocational rehabilitation for people with severe and profound hearing loss.

2.  Which of the following clinical situations would be an effective counseling-based audiological consultation, according to the author? Ensuring the patient can read and understand the audiogram - symbols, type and degree of loss, speech testing results. Focusing on devices and technology as the primary solutions for the issues the patient may be having. The audiologist does more listening than talking, uses open ended questions, and elicits the patient's story while working collaboratively with the patient to find solutions. A medical model based approach focused on the science and data around the diagnosis and treatment.

3.  Which of the following is a true statement about family-centered care? Most audiologists have incorporated family centered care all of their protocols and services. Most audiologists do not believe that family-centered care is important. There is no evidence to support family-centered aural rehabilitation and it wastes precious clinical time. Family centered care increase positive outcomes, satisfaction with care, and use of amplification.

4.  Family-centered care means including the family in: every scheduled appointment only those appointments where treatment decisions are made conference calls only but in-office visits should be reserved for patient one-on-one with the provider cost discussions but not other rehabilitation matters

5.  Resources for the implementation of group aural rehabilitation include: earTunes.com The ACE program at the University of Queensland, as well as the G.R.O.U.P. resources from Ida Institute, as well as this course's reference list gusmueller.net tiktok.com