SHS 496 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
What does WHO stand for?
a.) Work Health Organization
b.) World Health Organization
c.) World Health Occupations
d.) World Healing Organization - Answers - B
Classical composer Beethoven suffered from hearing loss and chronic tinnitus, which
made it difficult to hear his music and play the piano. Which of the ICF limitations are
described here?
a.) Personal factors and participation
b.) Environmental factors and personal factors
c.) Activity and environmental factors
d.) Activity and participation - Answers - D
What is the focus of WHO's International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and
Health (ICF) on hearing loss?
a.) How to help the patient adapt to the hearing loss
b.) Both how the hearing loss affects the patient's everday life and how to help the
patient adapt to the hearing loss
c.) How to fix the patient's hearing loss
d.) How the hearing loss affects the patient in everyday life - Answers - B
Which of the following is NOT one of the limitations and restrictions of a health condition
mentioned in the ICF classification system?
a.) Body function/body structure
b.) Negative factors
c.) Activity limitations
d.) Personal factors - Answers - B
According to the technical definition, aural habilitation is:
a.) An intervention for those who have not developed listening, speech, and language
skills
b.) An intervention solely based on hearing aids to ensure that patients with hearing loss
can hear sounds within the speech banana
, c.) An intervention for adults aimed at minimizing and alleviating the communication
difficulties associated with hearing loss
d.)A diagnosis of type, degree, and configuration of hearing loss. - Answers - A
Who provides aural rehabilitation?
a.) SLPs only
b.) Audiologists only
c.) Teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing
d.) SLPs, Audiologists, and Teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing - Answers - D
An evidence-based practice approach takes into account:
a.) The idea that we should do things the way it's always been done
b.) Current best evidence, patient values, and clinical expertise
c.) Current research only
d.) Clinical expertise, gut feeling, and patient values - Answers - B
What is the gold standard for information in evidence-based practice?
a.) Controlled study
b.) Meta-analysis
c.) Case Study
d.) Randomized controlled trial - Answers - B
Aural rehabilitation is NOT ___________.
a.) Medical diagnostics
b.) Speech reading
c.) Hearing aid fitting
d.) Tinnitus management - Answers - A
What is the difference between an unserved population and an underserved
population? - Answers - Unserved Population: a population that needs help but not
receiving any
Underserved Population: a population in which they are receiving help but it is not the
best nor is it ideal
Consonants mostly contain ______________ information of speech.
a.) High-frequency
b.) Low-frequency
c.) Very low frequency
d.) Intensity - Answers - A
+10 dB SNR means ____________.
What does WHO stand for?
a.) Work Health Organization
b.) World Health Organization
c.) World Health Occupations
d.) World Healing Organization - Answers - B
Classical composer Beethoven suffered from hearing loss and chronic tinnitus, which
made it difficult to hear his music and play the piano. Which of the ICF limitations are
described here?
a.) Personal factors and participation
b.) Environmental factors and personal factors
c.) Activity and environmental factors
d.) Activity and participation - Answers - D
What is the focus of WHO's International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and
Health (ICF) on hearing loss?
a.) How to help the patient adapt to the hearing loss
b.) Both how the hearing loss affects the patient's everday life and how to help the
patient adapt to the hearing loss
c.) How to fix the patient's hearing loss
d.) How the hearing loss affects the patient in everyday life - Answers - B
Which of the following is NOT one of the limitations and restrictions of a health condition
mentioned in the ICF classification system?
a.) Body function/body structure
b.) Negative factors
c.) Activity limitations
d.) Personal factors - Answers - B
According to the technical definition, aural habilitation is:
a.) An intervention for those who have not developed listening, speech, and language
skills
b.) An intervention solely based on hearing aids to ensure that patients with hearing loss
can hear sounds within the speech banana
, c.) An intervention for adults aimed at minimizing and alleviating the communication
difficulties associated with hearing loss
d.)A diagnosis of type, degree, and configuration of hearing loss. - Answers - A
Who provides aural rehabilitation?
a.) SLPs only
b.) Audiologists only
c.) Teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing
d.) SLPs, Audiologists, and Teachers of the deaf and hard of hearing - Answers - D
An evidence-based practice approach takes into account:
a.) The idea that we should do things the way it's always been done
b.) Current best evidence, patient values, and clinical expertise
c.) Current research only
d.) Clinical expertise, gut feeling, and patient values - Answers - B
What is the gold standard for information in evidence-based practice?
a.) Controlled study
b.) Meta-analysis
c.) Case Study
d.) Randomized controlled trial - Answers - B
Aural rehabilitation is NOT ___________.
a.) Medical diagnostics
b.) Speech reading
c.) Hearing aid fitting
d.) Tinnitus management - Answers - A
What is the difference between an unserved population and an underserved
population? - Answers - Unserved Population: a population that needs help but not
receiving any
Underserved Population: a population in which they are receiving help but it is not the
best nor is it ideal
Consonants mostly contain ______________ information of speech.
a.) High-frequency
b.) Low-frequency
c.) Very low frequency
d.) Intensity - Answers - A
+10 dB SNR means ____________.
