ILE COMPREHENSIVE EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Your patient/client has a Type A tympanogram. This is usually associated with which
types of hearing loss?
A) Conductive hearing loss; Mixed hearing loss
B) Normal hearing; Sensorineural hearing loss
C) Normal hearing; Conductive hearing loss
D) Normal hearing; Mixed hearing loss - ✔✔B
✔✔AC - ✔✔Air Conduction
✔✔A/D - ✔✔Analog-to-digital
✔✔ALD - ✔✔Assisted listening devices
✔✔ANSI - ✔✔American National Standards Institute
✔✔APHAB - ✔✔Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit
✔✔BC - ✔✔Bone Conduction
✔✔BAHA - ✔✔Bone Anchored Hearing Aid
✔✔BiCROS - ✔✔Bilateral Contralateral Routing of Signal
✔✔BTE - ✔✔Behind-the-ear
✔✔CIC - ✔✔Completely in the Canal
✔✔COSI - ✔✔Client Oriented Scale of Improvement
✔✔CROS - ✔✔Contralateral Routing of Signal
✔✔D/A - ✔✔Digital-to-Analog
✔✔dB - ✔✔Decibel
✔✔dB HL - ✔✔Decibels Hearing Level
✔✔dB SPL - ✔✔Decibels Sound Pressure Level
, ✔✔DSL I/O - ✔✔Desired Sensation Level Input/Output
✔✔ENT - ✔✔Ear-Nose-Throat
✔✔FM - ✔✔Frequency Modulation
✔✔FOG - ✔✔Full-on-gain
✔✔HF - ✔✔High Frequency
✔✔NAL-NL - ✔✔National Acoustic Laboratories- Non-Linear
✔✔NAL-NL1 - ✔✔National Acoustic Laboratories- Non-Linear
✔✔NAL-NL2 - ✔✔National Acoustic Laboratories- Non-linear
✔✔NOAH - ✔✔software interface
✔✔NU-6 - ✔✔Northwestern University Word List-6
✔✔OAE - ✔✔Otoacoustic Emissions
✔✔OSPL90 - ✔✔Output Sound Pressure Performance with Phonetically Balanced
Word List
✔✔PB Max - ✔✔Patient Maximum Performance with Phonetically Balanced Word List
✔✔POGO - ✔✔Prescription of Gain and Output
✔✔PSAP - ✔✔Personal Sound Amplification Product
✔✔PTA - ✔✔Pure Tone Average
✔✔REAR - ✔✔Real Ear Aided Response
✔✔RECD - ✔✔Real Ear to Coupler Difference
✔✔REIG - ✔✔Real Ear Insertion Gain
✔✔REIR - ✔✔Real Ear Insertion Response
✔✔REM - ✔✔Real Ear Measurement
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Your patient/client has a Type A tympanogram. This is usually associated with which
types of hearing loss?
A) Conductive hearing loss; Mixed hearing loss
B) Normal hearing; Sensorineural hearing loss
C) Normal hearing; Conductive hearing loss
D) Normal hearing; Mixed hearing loss - ✔✔B
✔✔AC - ✔✔Air Conduction
✔✔A/D - ✔✔Analog-to-digital
✔✔ALD - ✔✔Assisted listening devices
✔✔ANSI - ✔✔American National Standards Institute
✔✔APHAB - ✔✔Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit
✔✔BC - ✔✔Bone Conduction
✔✔BAHA - ✔✔Bone Anchored Hearing Aid
✔✔BiCROS - ✔✔Bilateral Contralateral Routing of Signal
✔✔BTE - ✔✔Behind-the-ear
✔✔CIC - ✔✔Completely in the Canal
✔✔COSI - ✔✔Client Oriented Scale of Improvement
✔✔CROS - ✔✔Contralateral Routing of Signal
✔✔D/A - ✔✔Digital-to-Analog
✔✔dB - ✔✔Decibel
✔✔dB HL - ✔✔Decibels Hearing Level
✔✔dB SPL - ✔✔Decibels Sound Pressure Level
, ✔✔DSL I/O - ✔✔Desired Sensation Level Input/Output
✔✔ENT - ✔✔Ear-Nose-Throat
✔✔FM - ✔✔Frequency Modulation
✔✔FOG - ✔✔Full-on-gain
✔✔HF - ✔✔High Frequency
✔✔NAL-NL - ✔✔National Acoustic Laboratories- Non-Linear
✔✔NAL-NL1 - ✔✔National Acoustic Laboratories- Non-Linear
✔✔NAL-NL2 - ✔✔National Acoustic Laboratories- Non-linear
✔✔NOAH - ✔✔software interface
✔✔NU-6 - ✔✔Northwestern University Word List-6
✔✔OAE - ✔✔Otoacoustic Emissions
✔✔OSPL90 - ✔✔Output Sound Pressure Performance with Phonetically Balanced
Word List
✔✔PB Max - ✔✔Patient Maximum Performance with Phonetically Balanced Word List
✔✔POGO - ✔✔Prescription of Gain and Output
✔✔PSAP - ✔✔Personal Sound Amplification Product
✔✔PTA - ✔✔Pure Tone Average
✔✔REAR - ✔✔Real Ear Aided Response
✔✔RECD - ✔✔Real Ear to Coupler Difference
✔✔REIG - ✔✔Real Ear Insertion Gain
✔✔REIR - ✔✔Real Ear Insertion Response
✔✔REM - ✔✔Real Ear Measurement
