Deaf Hard of Hearing Exam STUDY
questions with 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.
Cochlear Implant (CI) - correct answer ✔✔ is a surgically implanted electronic device that
provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing in
both ears; as of 2014 they had been used experimentally in some people who had acquired
deafness in one ear after learning how to speak. Cochlear implants bypass the normal hearing
process; they have a sound processor that resides on the outside of the skin (and generally
worn behind the ear) which contains microphones, electronics, battery, and a coil which
transmits a signal to the implant. The implant has a coil to receive signals, electronics, and an
array of electrodes which is placed into the cochlea, which stimulate the cochlear nerve.
Sound Field System - correct answer ✔✔ A sound field system is a sound system for schools that
improves the learning environment for the entire class by improving the sound environment in
the classroom.
BAHA - correct answer ✔✔ Bone Anchored Hearing Aid; While a hearing aid tries to push sound
through the damaged part of the ear, the Baha System uses your natural ability to conduct
sound through bone vibrations. Through bone conduction, sound bypasses the damaged outer
or middle ear and sends clearer, more crisp sound directly to your inner ear.
Single side-loss - correct answer ✔✔ You have little or no hearing in one ear, but normal hearing
in the other ear.
Possible Causes:
Sudden deafness
Acoustic Neuroma
Birth defects
Genetics
, Head trauma
Ménière's disease
Adverse reactions to drugs
Malformation at birth or missing inner ear or cochlea
Conductive Hearing Loss - correct answer ✔✔ You have a problem with your outer or middle
ear.
Possible Causes:
Skin Allergies
Malformations at birth
Microtia and Astresia
Draining Ears
Chronic Ear Infections
Previous ear surgeries
Chronic mastoiditis or middle ear infections
Skin growth or cyst (cholesteatoma)
Syndromes such as Down, Goldenhar and Treacher Collins
Mixed Hearing Loss - correct answer ✔✔ You have a problem with your outer or middle ear and
your inner ear.
Any of the causes of conductive hearing loss plus any of the following:
Aging
Exposure to loud noise
Head trauma
questions with 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.
Cochlear Implant (CI) - correct answer ✔✔ is a surgically implanted electronic device that
provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing in
both ears; as of 2014 they had been used experimentally in some people who had acquired
deafness in one ear after learning how to speak. Cochlear implants bypass the normal hearing
process; they have a sound processor that resides on the outside of the skin (and generally
worn behind the ear) which contains microphones, electronics, battery, and a coil which
transmits a signal to the implant. The implant has a coil to receive signals, electronics, and an
array of electrodes which is placed into the cochlea, which stimulate the cochlear nerve.
Sound Field System - correct answer ✔✔ A sound field system is a sound system for schools that
improves the learning environment for the entire class by improving the sound environment in
the classroom.
BAHA - correct answer ✔✔ Bone Anchored Hearing Aid; While a hearing aid tries to push sound
through the damaged part of the ear, the Baha System uses your natural ability to conduct
sound through bone vibrations. Through bone conduction, sound bypasses the damaged outer
or middle ear and sends clearer, more crisp sound directly to your inner ear.
Single side-loss - correct answer ✔✔ You have little or no hearing in one ear, but normal hearing
in the other ear.
Possible Causes:
Sudden deafness
Acoustic Neuroma
Birth defects
Genetics
, Head trauma
Ménière's disease
Adverse reactions to drugs
Malformation at birth or missing inner ear or cochlea
Conductive Hearing Loss - correct answer ✔✔ You have a problem with your outer or middle
ear.
Possible Causes:
Skin Allergies
Malformations at birth
Microtia and Astresia
Draining Ears
Chronic Ear Infections
Previous ear surgeries
Chronic mastoiditis or middle ear infections
Skin growth or cyst (cholesteatoma)
Syndromes such as Down, Goldenhar and Treacher Collins
Mixed Hearing Loss - correct answer ✔✔ You have a problem with your outer or middle ear and
your inner ear.
Any of the causes of conductive hearing loss plus any of the following:
Aging
Exposure to loud noise
Head trauma
