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Signia Podcast Series: Evidence-based Interventions for Adults with Severe-Profound Hearing Loss

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1.  It is estimated that ___ of adults have a severe-profound hearing loss 5% 10% 20% Unknown

2.  As a general rule, the most recent prescriptive fitting formula from the National Acoustic Laboratories, NAL-NL2, calls for individuals with severe/profound hearing loss to start with __________________, relative to mild to moderate hearing aid wearers Higher compression ratios Unknown compression ratios The same compression ratios Lower compression ratios

3.  Recent cochlear implant criteria are best described as: 20-20 60-40 60-60 90-20

4.  A recent study by Ricketts et al (2019) confirms that a bilateral hearing aid fitting results in greater levels of benefit compared to a unilateral fitting. Interestingly, they found that performance improvements were greatest for bilateral wearers with severe and profound hearing loss unilateral wearers with severe and profound hearing loss bilateral wearers with mild and moderate hearing loss unilateral wearers with mild to moderate hearing loss

5.  Which of the following is a common finding associated with severe to profound hearing loss Good unaided speech recognition ability Seldom benefit from remote microphone technology Remote microphone technology is not beneficial Below average unaided speech recognition ability