SPAA 344 EXAM 1 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
What is AR? - ANS - restore a lost state/function due to hearing loss to achieve better
communication and minimize the resulting difficulties
Aural = related to ears
Rehabilitation = process of restoring to former or "normal" function
Goals of AR? - ANS -NOT about "fixing" the hearing problem.
-Identify how hearing difficulties affect the patient's life.
-Alleviate the difficulties related to hearing loss
*Enhance the activities and participation of the person
*Implementing rehabilitation programs to address specific challenges
-Minimize its consequences
*Help the person accept residual problems associated with hearing loss
*Improve quality of life
WHO - ANS World Health Organization
ICF - ANS International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health
AR components & model - ANS AR components and model
- Assessment (CORE)
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, - Management (CARE)
Typical components
Diagnosis
Provision of appropriate listening device
Auditory training
Speechreading hearing
Counseling
Hearing protection
Tinnitus management
Speech language therapy
CORE & CARE - ANS CORE: Communication status→ Overall participation variables→Related
personal factors→ Environmental factors
Management (CARE) → Counseling & psychosocial → Ability & amplification →Remediate
communication activities → Environmental/coordination /participation improvement
who provides AR? - ANS - Audiologist
- SLP
- A teacher for children who are deaf and hard of hearing
Who serves as major AR roles? - ANS - Educators
- Psychologists
- Social workers
- Rehabilitation counselors
- Others as needed
Other team members:
Adults: home, vocational, social/ advocational
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, Child: home, educational, social/ extracurricular
What is sound? - ANS Sound is a wave that is created by vibrating objects and propagates
through a medium from one location to another
Frequency - ANS Number of cycles (vibrations) per second
Perceived as pitch
Unit of measurement: Hertz (Hz)
Human hearing range in frequency? 20-20,000
High frequency = short wavelength
Low frequency = long wavelength
Amplitude - ANS - Maximum displacement in the positive and negative direction
- Perceived as loudness
- Unit of measurement: decibels (dB)
- higher= longer
- lower= smaller/tighter compacted
Human auditory system is splint into: - ANS Peripheral and central
Peripheral - ANS Outer ( Auricle pinna & EAM)
Middle (Tympanic membrane & ossicular chain & impedance matcher)
Inner ear (Cochlea & Vestibule and semicircular canals- Origin of Corti)
Two mechanisms of hearing: - ANS Air conduction
Bone conduction
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ANSWERS
What is AR? - ANS - restore a lost state/function due to hearing loss to achieve better
communication and minimize the resulting difficulties
Aural = related to ears
Rehabilitation = process of restoring to former or "normal" function
Goals of AR? - ANS -NOT about "fixing" the hearing problem.
-Identify how hearing difficulties affect the patient's life.
-Alleviate the difficulties related to hearing loss
*Enhance the activities and participation of the person
*Implementing rehabilitation programs to address specific challenges
-Minimize its consequences
*Help the person accept residual problems associated with hearing loss
*Improve quality of life
WHO - ANS World Health Organization
ICF - ANS International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health
AR components & model - ANS AR components and model
- Assessment (CORE)
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, - Management (CARE)
Typical components
Diagnosis
Provision of appropriate listening device
Auditory training
Speechreading hearing
Counseling
Hearing protection
Tinnitus management
Speech language therapy
CORE & CARE - ANS CORE: Communication status→ Overall participation variables→Related
personal factors→ Environmental factors
Management (CARE) → Counseling & psychosocial → Ability & amplification →Remediate
communication activities → Environmental/coordination /participation improvement
who provides AR? - ANS - Audiologist
- SLP
- A teacher for children who are deaf and hard of hearing
Who serves as major AR roles? - ANS - Educators
- Psychologists
- Social workers
- Rehabilitation counselors
- Others as needed
Other team members:
Adults: home, vocational, social/ advocational
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, Child: home, educational, social/ extracurricular
What is sound? - ANS Sound is a wave that is created by vibrating objects and propagates
through a medium from one location to another
Frequency - ANS Number of cycles (vibrations) per second
Perceived as pitch
Unit of measurement: Hertz (Hz)
Human hearing range in frequency? 20-20,000
High frequency = short wavelength
Low frequency = long wavelength
Amplitude - ANS - Maximum displacement in the positive and negative direction
- Perceived as loudness
- Unit of measurement: decibels (dB)
- higher= longer
- lower= smaller/tighter compacted
Human auditory system is splint into: - ANS Peripheral and central
Peripheral - ANS Outer ( Auricle pinna & EAM)
Middle (Tympanic membrane & ossicular chain & impedance matcher)
Inner ear (Cochlea & Vestibule and semicircular canals- Origin of Corti)
Two mechanisms of hearing: - ANS Air conduction
Bone conduction
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