Audiology Praxis Practice Test Questions and Answers 100% Pass The caloric test is designed to stimulate which of the following structures? · Utricle · Saccule · SSC · Posterior SSC · Lateral SS C - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-lateral SSC An audiologist fits a young woman with binaural BTE hearing aids three weeks ago. The patient reports that the devices have provided suitable amplification in most environments, but she complains that low level ambient n oise has been distracting. In an effort to reduce the adverse noise effect, what adjustment might the audiologist make to the hearing aids? · Increasing threshold kneepoint · Decreasing threshold kneepoint · Enabling wide dynamic range compression · Decrea sing the gain in all frequency bands · Enabling expansion - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-enabling expansion Individuals with normal hearing sensitivity in one ear and a severe hearing loss in the other ear experience which of the following? · An improvement in speech understanding when the noise is closer to the ear with hearing loss · Improved ability to localize when the noise source is closer to the ear with normal hearing · Better speech understanding and localization as the reverberation time increases · More difficulty understanding speech with the speaker moves closer to the ear with hearing loss · Improved localization when the noise is at 0 degrees azimuth and the source is closer to the ear with hearing loss - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-· An improvement in speech understanding when the noise is closer to the ear with hearing loss A patient is seen for vestibular evaluation with the primary complaint of persistent imbalance for the past 6 months. She states that she has one severe attack of t rue rotary vertigo 6 months ago, and since then fears another will occur. She has limited her activities, as quick head movements increase her symptoms. She takes meclizine daily. VNG indicate normal saccade, OPK, and smooth pursuit. A second degree left -beating nystagmus is observed during gaze testing without fixation. Post active headshake nystagmus reveals a left -beating nystagmus. No positioning or positional nystagmus is observed. Bilateral caloric results indicate a 50% right weakness with no DP. Thi s patient has: · Menieres disease · Central vestib pathology · Statically uncompensated peripheral pathology affecting right ear · Dynamically uncompensated peripheral pathology affecting left ear · A dynamically uncompensated peripheral pathology a - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-
dynamically uncompensated peripheral pathology affecting right ear Which of the following is a possible outcome of an audiologist using a physicians NPI for billing rather than using his/her own NPI? · The reimbursement for services rendere d will be enhanced · The incorrect validation of the physician as the predominant provider of audiology services · The expansion of the scope of practice for audiologists · The audiologists will not be liable for malpractice · The audiologist will no longe r be eligible to maintain his or her own NPI - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-· The incorrect validation of the physician as the predominant provider of audiology services ABR testing indicates a prolonged wave I -V latency. These findings are consistent with which of the following? · Retrocochlear pathology, such as acoustic neuroma · Conductive hearing loss due to middle ear effusion · Cochlear hearing loss, ototoxicity · Middle ear dysfunction - otosclerosis · APD from stroke - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-retrocochlear patho logy, such as AN Which of the following is the most appropriate action for an audiologist to take when counseling a patient with a hearing impairment · Encouraging the patient to buy a hearing aid · Recommending that the pt buy an assistive device · Inform ing the patient of their options · Persuading the pt to accept limitations in communications · Advising the pt to minimize public activity - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-informing the pt of their options Which of the following is an accurate statement concerning measures of speech reading ability? · Speech reading test results are likely to have a high correlation with measures of visual intelligence · Intertalker differences are eliminated as a test varia ble when speech reading test results are scored on the basis of viseme recognition · The most realistic measures of speech reading ability are administered in a visual mode only · The most realistic measures of speech reading ability are administered in a combined auditory -visual mode · The most appropriate material to use in measuring speech reading ability is nonsense syllables - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-The most realistic measures of speech reading ability are administered in a combined auditory -visual mode One component of the adult aural rehab process is listening training. In listening training, the patient is trained to: · Use clear speech and assertiveness training · Hear the frequencies within the human vocal range better · Be alert, attentive, and set t o receive communication · Visually perceive phonemic differences
dynamically uncompensated peripheral pathology affecting right ear Which of the following is a possible outcome of an audiologist using a physicians NPI for billing rather than using his/her own NPI? · The reimbursement for services rendere d will be enhanced · The incorrect validation of the physician as the predominant provider of audiology services · The expansion of the scope of practice for audiologists · The audiologists will not be liable for malpractice · The audiologist will no longe r be eligible to maintain his or her own NPI - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-· The incorrect validation of the physician as the predominant provider of audiology services ABR testing indicates a prolonged wave I -V latency. These findings are consistent with which of the following? · Retrocochlear pathology, such as acoustic neuroma · Conductive hearing loss due to middle ear effusion · Cochlear hearing loss, ototoxicity · Middle ear dysfunction - otosclerosis · APD from stroke - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-retrocochlear patho logy, such as AN Which of the following is the most appropriate action for an audiologist to take when counseling a patient with a hearing impairment · Encouraging the patient to buy a hearing aid · Recommending that the pt buy an assistive device · Inform ing the patient of their options · Persuading the pt to accept limitations in communications · Advising the pt to minimize public activity - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-informing the pt of their options Which of the following is an accurate statement concerning measures of speech reading ability? · Speech reading test results are likely to have a high correlation with measures of visual intelligence · Intertalker differences are eliminated as a test varia ble when speech reading test results are scored on the basis of viseme recognition · The most realistic measures of speech reading ability are administered in a visual mode only · The most realistic measures of speech reading ability are administered in a combined auditory -visual mode · The most appropriate material to use in measuring speech reading ability is nonsense syllables - Correct Answer ✔️✔️-The most realistic measures of speech reading ability are administered in a combined auditory -visual mode One component of the adult aural rehab process is listening training. In listening training, the patient is trained to: · Use clear speech and assertiveness training · Hear the frequencies within the human vocal range better · Be alert, attentive, and set t o receive communication · Visually perceive phonemic differences
