Deaf Hard of Hearing Exam STUDY guide |90 questions| with correct answers

IDEA CORRECT ANSWER The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children. FAPE CORRECT ANSWER Free Appropriate Public Education is an educational right of children with disabilities in the United States that is guaranteed by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. AAC CORRECT ANSWER Augmentative and Alternative Communication device-Children and adults with severe speech or language problems may need to find other ways to communicate. There are many types of AAC that they can use. Speech-language pathologists, or SLPs, can help. AABR CORRECT ANSWER Automated Auditory Brainstem Response (AABR)—This test measures how the hearing nerve responds to sound. Clicks or tones are played through soft earphones into the baby's ears. Three electrodes placed on the baby's head measure the hearing nerve's response. OAE CORRECT ANSWER Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE)—This test measures sound waves produced in the inner ear. A tiny probe is placed just inside the baby's ear canal. It measures the response (echo) when clicks or tones are played into the baby's ears. Deaf President Now CORRECT ANSWER Deaf President Now was a student protest in March 1988 at Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. The university, established by an act of Congress in 1864 to serve the deaf, had never once been led by a Deaf president since its origination. Elizabeth Zinser was elected; protests made and King Jordan was elected. Gallaudet University CORRECT ANSWER is a federally chartered private university for the education of the Deaf and hard of hearing located in Washington, D.C., on a 99-acre (0.40 km2) campus; named after Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet- bilingual and English.