SLHS 4801 Exam 1 Questions With 100% Correct Answers

SLHS 4801 Exam 1 Questions With 100% Correct Answers What is the scope of practice? - ANSWER- What procedures and actions you are allowed to do & the types of professional activities a professional engages in. What are the specifics of audiology practice? - ANSWER- Prevention- through monitoring programs in schools, industries, and the military. Identification or screening - trough screening programs such as newborn hearing, school, military, and industrial screenings. Audiologic assessment - testing hearing ability, the integrity of the auditory pathways and diagnosing aspects of hearing disorders. Vestibular or balance assessment - testing vestibular system, balance intervention Practice Settings for Audiology - ANSWER- Hospitals, clinics, schools, private practice, industries, military and veterans administration, and hearing aid companies Medical Audiology, Pediatric Audiology, Educational Audiology, Dispensing Audiology (private practice, hospital, clinic), Industrial Audiology (private practice, hospital, clinic), Rehabilitative Audiology. Medical Audiology - hospitals and ENT clinics Diversity factors for paitients - ANSWER- Age, race/ethnicity, gender, economic status, education What to diversity factors affect? - ANSWER- counseling and refferals Epidemiology - ANSWER- the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why Incidence - ANSWER- how many NEW cases of a disorder there are in a given amount of time Prevalence - ANSWER- the proportion of individuals in a population having a disease or characteristic What is the prevalence of hearing loss in the US? - ANSWER- approximately 49 million people in the US hav a hearing loss What percent of the global population has a hearing loss? - ANSWER- 5% ~ 360 million What are the basic elements of diagnostic audiology? - ANSWER- Stimuli presented to the auditory system Transducers used to present stimuli Responses made to the stimuli Interpretation of the data What are the different stimuli used? - ANSWER- Pure tones, clicks & transients, noise bands and speech Pure tones - ANSWER- energy present at one frequency Why do we use pure tones? - ANSWER- they stimulate a very discrete are of the basilar membrane of the cochlea and this allows us to determine what portion of the auditory system may be damaged with regard to discrete frequency regions. What part of the basilar membrane responds to high frequencies? - ANSWER- The basal/ base region What part of the basilar membrane responds to low frequencies? - ANSWER- the apical/ apex region What are the axis of a waveform? - ANSWER- x-axis = time y-axis = amp. What are the axis of a spectrum? - ANSWER- x-axis = frequency y-axis = amp. clicks and transients - ANSWER- spatter energy across a broad frequency range due to the acoustic signal being turned on breifly (few milliseconds) (spectral splater) has poor frequency resolution while having good temporal resolution.