EXAM QUESTIONS N ANSWERS
2025/2026
What does WATCH stand for? - correct answer ✔✔W: Watch talkers mouth
A: Ask specific questions
T: Talk about your hearing loss
C: Change the situation
H: Acquire health care knowledge
Self efficacy - correct answer ✔✔Belief in one's personal capabilities
Experiences that bolster self efficacy - correct answer ✔✔•Mastery Experience
•Vicarious Experience
•Verbal Persuasion
•Emotional Arousal
Stages of grief - correct answer ✔✔1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Adjustment/Acceptance
Mastery Experience - correct answer ✔✔Direct experience in a successful communication
interaction is perhaps the most powerful source of self efficacy.
,If a patient practices using a repair strategy many times in a safe and comfortable setting, and
often experiences success when doing so, the patient will likely acquire a sense of mastery and
high self efficacy for this task.
Vicarious Experience - correct answer ✔✔Direct observation of others succeeding can bolster
the patients belief that he or she too can succeed.
Verbal Persuasion - correct answer ✔✔A clinician might tell or logically explain to the patient
that communication difficulties can be managed and that a patient has the tools necessary to
manage them.
Emotional Arousal - correct answer ✔✔Activities that lower a person's arousal, such as
relaxation or breathing activities, might enhance perceived self efficacy.
Assertiveness Training - correct answer ✔✔Pg. 371-372
Least Restrictive Environment - correct answer ✔✔Requirement of federal special education
legislation that requires that students with disabilities be educated as much as is individually
appropriate in "regular" learning environments along with peers who do not have disabilities.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) - correct answer ✔✔Provides for specialized
instruction for individuals who have disabilities and who met eligibility requirements, typically
that the disability causes adverse educational effects.
Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) - correct answer ✔✔Refers to federal funding
provided for the education of children with disabilities, and requires as a condition for receiving
federal funds the provision of this ________.
No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) - correct answer ✔✔Left other kids behind because
teachers are trying to work with kids who may have low IQ levels that will never be able to pass
those tests.
,Provision of services under IDEA for infants might include: - correct answer ✔✔• Family
Training, counseling and home visits
• Special instructions
• Speech pathology and audiology
• Occupational Therapy
• Psychological Services
• Case Management
• Medical Services for diagnosis or evaluation
• Screening and assessment
• Transportation to and from services
Key Provisions of the IDEA - correct answer ✔✔1. Identification
2. Evaluation
3. Individualized Education Plan
4. Parents
5. Related Services
6. Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
7. Private School
8. Early Intervention and Preschools
9. Due Process
10. Advisory Board
11. Funds
12. Records
Overview of what happens when a baby is identified with a hearing loss. - correct answer
✔✔Evaluation
, - Detection and Identification of hearing loss
- Consideration of etiology and other health concerns
Preparation
- Parent Counseling
- Development of an aural rehabilitation strategy
Implementation
- Communication Mode
- Listening Device
- Early Intervention Program
Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) - correct answer ✔✔hearing test done soon after
birth that detects hearing loss in newborns.
Newborn Nursery - correct answer ✔✔hospital unit designed to provide care for healthy
newborn infants
False Positive - correct answer ✔✔When a baby does not have a hearing loss but fails the
screening test.
False Negative - correct answer ✔✔When a baby does have a hearing loss but passes the
screening test.
Apgar Score - correct answer ✔✔a scale of 1-10 to evaluate a newborn infant's physical status
at 1 and 5 minutes after birth
Auditory Brain Stem Response (ABR) - correct answer ✔✔auditory evoked potential that
originates from the auditory nerve. It is often used with babies. Electrodes are placed on the
head and brain wave activity in response to sound is recorded. Determines damage to the
cochlea, auditory nerve, and auditory pathways in the brainstem