Aural Rehab Final Exam questions
well answered 2025/2026
auditory skills assessment - correct answer ✔✔A component of a comprehensive
communication evaluation for a child with a hearing loss
auditory skills assessment may influence... - correct answer ✔✔decisions about amplification
neuroplasticity - correct answer ✔✔The brain's availability and malleability to grow, develop
and alter its structure as a function of external stimulation
"Cross-modal" reorganization - reduces _______ - correct answer ✔✔auditory neural capacity
Neuroplasticity is greatest in the first _____ years of life - correct answer ✔✔3 ½
The goal of early auditory intervention is to... - correct answer ✔✔maintain a child's ability to
learn through a developmental model
"Developmental synchrony"
Listening skills are acquired in normal hearing infants ____ - correct answer ✔✔naturally
Children with hearing loss achieve listening skills commensurate with (3) - correct answer
✔✔Effectiveness of hearing technologies
Experience
Expectations
, We need to build auditory skills because most learning is ___ - correct answer ✔✔incidental
*What needs to happen for incidental learning:*
Assistive technology is worn ____
Assistive technology is appropriately fitted
Determine _____ hearing ability
Listening opportunities are ______
Speech is _____ and ____
Repeat, repeat, repeat
_____ _____ is minimal - correct answer ✔✔Assistive technology is worn 100%
Assistive technology is appropriately fitted
Determine distance hearing ability
Listening opportunities are meaningful
Speech is slow and interesting
Repeat, repeat, repeat
Background noise is minimal
Ling Six Sounds - correct answer ✔✔mm
oo
ah
ee
sh
s
These six sounds provide information covering the entire speech spectrum
well answered 2025/2026
auditory skills assessment - correct answer ✔✔A component of a comprehensive
communication evaluation for a child with a hearing loss
auditory skills assessment may influence... - correct answer ✔✔decisions about amplification
neuroplasticity - correct answer ✔✔The brain's availability and malleability to grow, develop
and alter its structure as a function of external stimulation
"Cross-modal" reorganization - reduces _______ - correct answer ✔✔auditory neural capacity
Neuroplasticity is greatest in the first _____ years of life - correct answer ✔✔3 ½
The goal of early auditory intervention is to... - correct answer ✔✔maintain a child's ability to
learn through a developmental model
"Developmental synchrony"
Listening skills are acquired in normal hearing infants ____ - correct answer ✔✔naturally
Children with hearing loss achieve listening skills commensurate with (3) - correct answer
✔✔Effectiveness of hearing technologies
Experience
Expectations
, We need to build auditory skills because most learning is ___ - correct answer ✔✔incidental
*What needs to happen for incidental learning:*
Assistive technology is worn ____
Assistive technology is appropriately fitted
Determine _____ hearing ability
Listening opportunities are ______
Speech is _____ and ____
Repeat, repeat, repeat
_____ _____ is minimal - correct answer ✔✔Assistive technology is worn 100%
Assistive technology is appropriately fitted
Determine distance hearing ability
Listening opportunities are meaningful
Speech is slow and interesting
Repeat, repeat, repeat
Background noise is minimal
Ling Six Sounds - correct answer ✔✔mm
oo
ah
ee
sh
s
These six sounds provide information covering the entire speech spectrum
