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What is the scope of practice? correct answers 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? correct answers 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 correct answers 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 correct answers Age, race/ethnicity, gender, economic status, education What to diversity factors affect? correct answers counseling and refferals Epidemiology correct answers the study of how often diseases occur in different groups of people and why Incidence correct answers how many NEW cases of a disorder there are in a given amount of time Prevalence correct answers the proportion of individuals in a population having a disease or characteristic What is the prevalence of hearing loss in the US? correct answers approximately 49 million people in the US hav a hearing loss What percent of the global population has a hearing loss? correct answers 5% ~ 360 million What are the basic elements of diagnostic audiology? correct answers Stimuli presented to the auditory system Transducers used to present stimuli Responses made to the stimuli Interpretation of the data