Aural Rehab Exam II QUESTIONS
WELL ANSWERED GRADED A+
2025/2026
What percentage of hearing aid owners are sufficiently satisfied with the benefits of hearing
aids on a regular basis? - correct answer ✔✔40-60%
Only __________% of the 31.5 million persons in the U.S who have hearing loss currently own
hearing instruments. - correct answer ✔✔24%
What is the principle reason for the high dissatisfaction rate with amplification? - correct answer
✔✔Listeners can detect spoken language, but cannot understand it, especially in the presence
of competing sounds.
What is the primary goal of auditory training? - correct answer ✔✔To develop patients' ability
to recognize speech using the auditory signal and to interpret auditory experiences.
What is a secondary goal of auditory training? - correct answer ✔✔To enhance music
perception.
______________ _____________ emphasizes the recognition of individual speech sounds or
syllables, with the notion that a student must perceive each of the basic parts of speech before
the whole can be identified. - correct answer ✔✔Analytic training
Name that type of training: discriminate the word pop from the word top. - correct answer
✔✔Analytic training
,_____________ ____________ emphasizes the understanding of meaning and not necessarily
the identification and comprehension of every word spoken in an utterance, with the notion the
perception of the whole is paramount. - correct answer ✔✔Synthetic training.
Name that type of training: a student listens to a clinician read a paragraph and then answers
questions about the paragraph content. - correct answer ✔✔Synthetic Training
What 3 developments spurred the popularity of auditory training in the 20th century? - correct
answer ✔✔1) Advent of wearable hearing aids
2) Noise induced hearing loss increased with WWII.
3) Emergence of cochlear implant technology
Auditory training embraces both ___________ __________ and ____________ _____________.
- correct answer ✔✔Speech training; auditory training
T/F: Speech and auditory training are essentially the same thing. - correct answer ✔✔False:
Speech and auditory training are separate.
Auditory training is presented in an auditory mode only. How do we achieve this? - correct
answer ✔✔We use a hoop to shut off visual cues and allow our voice to go through the material
without distortion.
Auditory language refers to.... - correct answer ✔✔The patient's language age and what they
are able to understand.
T/F: A child may be 3 years old but be limited to a 1 year old auditory language vocabulary, even
if they have receptive language through the use of sign language up to 3 years old. - correct
answer ✔✔True
, Before auditory training is able to be successful, what must occur first? - correct answer ✔✔The
client must be fit with an appropriate listening device.
T/F: Hearing and understanding are an automatic process. - correct answer ✔✔False: Hearing
and understanding are not automatic. It is not like putting glasses on. We must really train the
brain.
What are the 3 steps of the auditory loop? - correct answer ✔✔1) Hear it - detection.
2) Process it - search for a memory of it
3) Say it
T/F: hearing loss acts as a filter and attenuates or eliminates those sounds that are not of
relatively high amplitude. - correct answer ✔✔True
Most hearing impaired people have to ______-____________ how to hear in oder to fully
benefit from their hearing aids. - correct answer ✔✔Re-learn
The presence of _________________ _______________ can further reduce the audibility of the
speech signal and the clarity of speech sounds. - correct answer ✔✔Background noise
T/F: A person with a sensorineural hearing loss has their speech recognition repaired with
amplification. - correct answer ✔✔False: Sensorineural hearing loss can impair speech
recognition even when the signal is amplified and audible.
Many persons with hearing loss have impaired frequency ______________ and impaired
temporal _________________. - correct answer ✔✔Selectivity; resolution.
Name that term: The auditory system's ability to respond differently to different frequencies
and bands of frequencies. - correct answer ✔✔Frequency selectivity
WELL ANSWERED GRADED A+
2025/2026
What percentage of hearing aid owners are sufficiently satisfied with the benefits of hearing
aids on a regular basis? - correct answer ✔✔40-60%
Only __________% of the 31.5 million persons in the U.S who have hearing loss currently own
hearing instruments. - correct answer ✔✔24%
What is the principle reason for the high dissatisfaction rate with amplification? - correct answer
✔✔Listeners can detect spoken language, but cannot understand it, especially in the presence
of competing sounds.
What is the primary goal of auditory training? - correct answer ✔✔To develop patients' ability
to recognize speech using the auditory signal and to interpret auditory experiences.
What is a secondary goal of auditory training? - correct answer ✔✔To enhance music
perception.
______________ _____________ emphasizes the recognition of individual speech sounds or
syllables, with the notion that a student must perceive each of the basic parts of speech before
the whole can be identified. - correct answer ✔✔Analytic training
Name that type of training: discriminate the word pop from the word top. - correct answer
✔✔Analytic training
,_____________ ____________ emphasizes the understanding of meaning and not necessarily
the identification and comprehension of every word spoken in an utterance, with the notion the
perception of the whole is paramount. - correct answer ✔✔Synthetic training.
Name that type of training: a student listens to a clinician read a paragraph and then answers
questions about the paragraph content. - correct answer ✔✔Synthetic Training
What 3 developments spurred the popularity of auditory training in the 20th century? - correct
answer ✔✔1) Advent of wearable hearing aids
2) Noise induced hearing loss increased with WWII.
3) Emergence of cochlear implant technology
Auditory training embraces both ___________ __________ and ____________ _____________.
- correct answer ✔✔Speech training; auditory training
T/F: Speech and auditory training are essentially the same thing. - correct answer ✔✔False:
Speech and auditory training are separate.
Auditory training is presented in an auditory mode only. How do we achieve this? - correct
answer ✔✔We use a hoop to shut off visual cues and allow our voice to go through the material
without distortion.
Auditory language refers to.... - correct answer ✔✔The patient's language age and what they
are able to understand.
T/F: A child may be 3 years old but be limited to a 1 year old auditory language vocabulary, even
if they have receptive language through the use of sign language up to 3 years old. - correct
answer ✔✔True
, Before auditory training is able to be successful, what must occur first? - correct answer ✔✔The
client must be fit with an appropriate listening device.
T/F: Hearing and understanding are an automatic process. - correct answer ✔✔False: Hearing
and understanding are not automatic. It is not like putting glasses on. We must really train the
brain.
What are the 3 steps of the auditory loop? - correct answer ✔✔1) Hear it - detection.
2) Process it - search for a memory of it
3) Say it
T/F: hearing loss acts as a filter and attenuates or eliminates those sounds that are not of
relatively high amplitude. - correct answer ✔✔True
Most hearing impaired people have to ______-____________ how to hear in oder to fully
benefit from their hearing aids. - correct answer ✔✔Re-learn
The presence of _________________ _______________ can further reduce the audibility of the
speech signal and the clarity of speech sounds. - correct answer ✔✔Background noise
T/F: A person with a sensorineural hearing loss has their speech recognition repaired with
amplification. - correct answer ✔✔False: Sensorineural hearing loss can impair speech
recognition even when the signal is amplified and audible.
Many persons with hearing loss have impaired frequency ______________ and impaired
temporal _________________. - correct answer ✔✔Selectivity; resolution.
Name that term: The auditory system's ability to respond differently to different frequencies
and bands of frequencies. - correct answer ✔✔Frequency selectivity
