Hearing aid dispenser questions with verified answers
10 Ans✓✓✓ When testing for pure tone air, there is an average of _____ dB built
into pure tone audiometric 0
134 dB Ans✓✓✓ loudest sound tolerated by normal human ear
15 Ans✓✓✓ The SRT should be within ______ dB of the PTA, otherwise it is cause
to suspect malingering
15 Ans✓✓✓ When determining how much gain to add, one option is SRT - _____.
15 dB Ans✓✓✓ If there is a _____ dB or more difference between the test-ear
air-conduction threshold and the unmasked bone conduction threshold at the
same frequency, then test ear bone-conduction is needed.
1600 Ans✓✓✓ HFA - high frequency average
Referred to as the high frequency average taken from the full-on-gain curve (Fog)
by averaging the FOG at 1000 hz, ________ hz, and 2500 hz
20 Ans✓✓✓ When testing for speech audiometry, there is an average of ______
dB built into speech pure tone audiometric zero
22 Ans✓✓✓ In the cochlea, the number of sites the electrode array of a cochlear
implant is able to stimulate is ______?
, 3 feet (1 meter) at 65 dB SPL Ans✓✓✓ normal conversational speech is at ______
3-4 Hz up to 4000 Hz Ans✓✓✓ normal ear detects changes from ________
40 Ans✓✓✓ Interaural attenuation with headphone foams is about _____dB
40 dB Ans✓✓✓ Mask when there is a ________ difference between the air
conduction thresholds
40+ Ans✓✓✓ what age does Paget's disease typically affect patients?
4000 Hz Ans✓✓✓ a 25 Hz change is required above _____Hz to detect a change
in pitch
70 Ans✓✓✓ Interaural attenuation with insert foams is about _____dB
a wearing schedule and notes, patient reading aloud daily. Ans✓✓✓ which two
listening strategies should be recommended to a new hearing aid user?
acoustic neuroma Ans✓✓✓ benign tumor on the auditory nerve that causes
vertigo, tinnitus, and hearing loss
Air conduction masking Ans✓✓✓ A/C test ear - A/C non test ear > OR = 40
(interaural attenuation)
10 Ans✓✓✓ When testing for pure tone air, there is an average of _____ dB built
into pure tone audiometric 0
134 dB Ans✓✓✓ loudest sound tolerated by normal human ear
15 Ans✓✓✓ The SRT should be within ______ dB of the PTA, otherwise it is cause
to suspect malingering
15 Ans✓✓✓ When determining how much gain to add, one option is SRT - _____.
15 dB Ans✓✓✓ If there is a _____ dB or more difference between the test-ear
air-conduction threshold and the unmasked bone conduction threshold at the
same frequency, then test ear bone-conduction is needed.
1600 Ans✓✓✓ HFA - high frequency average
Referred to as the high frequency average taken from the full-on-gain curve (Fog)
by averaging the FOG at 1000 hz, ________ hz, and 2500 hz
20 Ans✓✓✓ When testing for speech audiometry, there is an average of ______
dB built into speech pure tone audiometric zero
22 Ans✓✓✓ In the cochlea, the number of sites the electrode array of a cochlear
implant is able to stimulate is ______?
, 3 feet (1 meter) at 65 dB SPL Ans✓✓✓ normal conversational speech is at ______
3-4 Hz up to 4000 Hz Ans✓✓✓ normal ear detects changes from ________
40 Ans✓✓✓ Interaural attenuation with headphone foams is about _____dB
40 dB Ans✓✓✓ Mask when there is a ________ difference between the air
conduction thresholds
40+ Ans✓✓✓ what age does Paget's disease typically affect patients?
4000 Hz Ans✓✓✓ a 25 Hz change is required above _____Hz to detect a change
in pitch
70 Ans✓✓✓ Interaural attenuation with insert foams is about _____dB
a wearing schedule and notes, patient reading aloud daily. Ans✓✓✓ which two
listening strategies should be recommended to a new hearing aid user?
acoustic neuroma Ans✓✓✓ benign tumor on the auditory nerve that causes
vertigo, tinnitus, and hearing loss
Air conduction masking Ans✓✓✓ A/C test ear - A/C non test ear > OR = 40
(interaural attenuation)
