Exam Preview for 40853: Changing Counseling Conversations About Hea

Changing Counseling Conversations About Hearing Loss: It’s All About the Brain

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1. What is language? It’s a chosen form of communication It’s an organized system of communication used to share information It’s speaking It’s listening
2. What is the purpose of assistive technologies? To get children into school To get parents interested in streaming/FM systems To fulfill the JCIH guidelines The ONLY purpose of technologies (e.g. hearing aids) is to get sound through the doorway to the brain
3. It takes approximately how many hours of listening to speech before a child has a clear mental reference for each of the speech sounds? 20,000 10,000 5000 2000
4. Why should we read aloud with children? To improve attention spans Children who receive read-alouds show gains of more than twice as many new words To improve creative thinking Children require constant stimulation
5. What “P” does music enhance? Patterns Perception Processing Paralinguistics