AUDIOLOGY PRAXIS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SET A+
✔✔What is true of the American National Standard for Specification of Hearing Aid
Characteristics, ANSI S3.22? - ✔✔It describes measurement techniques and
procedures for measuring electroacoustic characteristics of hearing aids
✔✔An adult client has normal hearing through 1000 Hz with a steeply sloping, moderate
to severe sensorineural hearing loss in the higher frequencies. What is the most
appropriate hearing aid fitting? - ✔✔Moderate gain BTE hearing aid with an effective
low frequency tone control and a variable vent
✔✔PE tubes are placed in children's ears for what purpose? - ✔✔To take over the
functions of a blocked Eustachian tube
✔✔What is the best choice of amplification for a person with bilateral moderate
conductive hearing loss and chronic drainage from both ears? - ✔✔A bone conduction
hearing aid
✔✔What is true about a caloric response yielding a left unilateral weakness in the
interpretation of electronystagmography results? - ✔✔It suggests a left peripheral
vestibular disorder of either the labyrinthine or the VIIIth nerve
✔✔What test would yield information of greatest importance in the audiologic evaluation
of an adult with an average unmasked air conduction threshold of 75 dB in one ear and
normal sensitivity in the other? - ✔✔The Stenger Test
✔✔An advantage of many digitally programmable analog hearing aids over other
hearing aids is the potential for... - ✔✔programming more than one frequency response
and storing them into memory for later retrieval by the client
, ✔✔Which tuning fork test most directly predicts the presence of a conductive hearing
loss - ✔✔Rinne
✔✔Auditory manifestations of a retrocochlear pathology at the first order afferent nerve
fibers typically involve... - ✔✔pronounced acoustic reflex decay
✔✔The Education of All Handicapped Children Act mandated that children with
disabilities be educated in the least restrictive educational environment possible. This
means that profoundly hearing impaired children must be... - ✔✔evaluated by a team of
professionals to determine appropriate school placement
✔✔The validity of an auditory test refers to the test's... - ✔✔ability to identify a normal
condition as normal and an abnormal condition as abnormal
✔✔With the probe in the right ear, the acoustic reflex is present on both contralateral
and ipsilateral stimulation. With the probe in the left ear, the acoustic reflex is absent on
both contralateral and ipsilateral stimulation. The most likely cause of these findings is...
- ✔✔VIIth nerve pathology on the left side
✔✔A head injury resulting in a transverse fracture of the temporal bone through the otic
capsule usually leads to... - ✔✔a permanent sensorineural hearing loss
✔✔In order to determine whether a 6 month old infant has the motor skills to be tested
with VRA, the audiologist should both ask the infant's parents and observe whether the
infant can... - ✔✔visually track objects laterally
✔✔Click evoked auditory brainstem response thresholds are generally most closely
correlated with behavioral thresholds for frequencies of... - ✔✔2000-4000 Hz
✔✔What is an effective way to eliminate the cochlear microphonic from the
electrocochleographic response? - ✔✔Using alternating polarity clicks
✔✔In auditory evoked potential testing, electrical responses that occur 5-7 milliseconds
after the introduction of the signal are called... - ✔✔auditory brainstem responses
✔✔In an infant hearing screening program, a behavioral testing component may include
the arousal test. What is the best state for testing an infant using the arousal test? -
✔✔Drowsy or light sleep state
✔✔Functional gain of a hearing aid is best defined as the difference between what? -
✔✔Aided and unaided sound field thresholds
SET A+
✔✔What is true of the American National Standard for Specification of Hearing Aid
Characteristics, ANSI S3.22? - ✔✔It describes measurement techniques and
procedures for measuring electroacoustic characteristics of hearing aids
✔✔An adult client has normal hearing through 1000 Hz with a steeply sloping, moderate
to severe sensorineural hearing loss in the higher frequencies. What is the most
appropriate hearing aid fitting? - ✔✔Moderate gain BTE hearing aid with an effective
low frequency tone control and a variable vent
✔✔PE tubes are placed in children's ears for what purpose? - ✔✔To take over the
functions of a blocked Eustachian tube
✔✔What is the best choice of amplification for a person with bilateral moderate
conductive hearing loss and chronic drainage from both ears? - ✔✔A bone conduction
hearing aid
✔✔What is true about a caloric response yielding a left unilateral weakness in the
interpretation of electronystagmography results? - ✔✔It suggests a left peripheral
vestibular disorder of either the labyrinthine or the VIIIth nerve
✔✔What test would yield information of greatest importance in the audiologic evaluation
of an adult with an average unmasked air conduction threshold of 75 dB in one ear and
normal sensitivity in the other? - ✔✔The Stenger Test
✔✔An advantage of many digitally programmable analog hearing aids over other
hearing aids is the potential for... - ✔✔programming more than one frequency response
and storing them into memory for later retrieval by the client
, ✔✔Which tuning fork test most directly predicts the presence of a conductive hearing
loss - ✔✔Rinne
✔✔Auditory manifestations of a retrocochlear pathology at the first order afferent nerve
fibers typically involve... - ✔✔pronounced acoustic reflex decay
✔✔The Education of All Handicapped Children Act mandated that children with
disabilities be educated in the least restrictive educational environment possible. This
means that profoundly hearing impaired children must be... - ✔✔evaluated by a team of
professionals to determine appropriate school placement
✔✔The validity of an auditory test refers to the test's... - ✔✔ability to identify a normal
condition as normal and an abnormal condition as abnormal
✔✔With the probe in the right ear, the acoustic reflex is present on both contralateral
and ipsilateral stimulation. With the probe in the left ear, the acoustic reflex is absent on
both contralateral and ipsilateral stimulation. The most likely cause of these findings is...
- ✔✔VIIth nerve pathology on the left side
✔✔A head injury resulting in a transverse fracture of the temporal bone through the otic
capsule usually leads to... - ✔✔a permanent sensorineural hearing loss
✔✔In order to determine whether a 6 month old infant has the motor skills to be tested
with VRA, the audiologist should both ask the infant's parents and observe whether the
infant can... - ✔✔visually track objects laterally
✔✔Click evoked auditory brainstem response thresholds are generally most closely
correlated with behavioral thresholds for frequencies of... - ✔✔2000-4000 Hz
✔✔What is an effective way to eliminate the cochlear microphonic from the
electrocochleographic response? - ✔✔Using alternating polarity clicks
✔✔In auditory evoked potential testing, electrical responses that occur 5-7 milliseconds
after the introduction of the signal are called... - ✔✔auditory brainstem responses
✔✔In an infant hearing screening program, a behavioral testing component may include
the arousal test. What is the best state for testing an infant using the arousal test? -
✔✔Drowsy or light sleep state
✔✔Functional gain of a hearing aid is best defined as the difference between what? -
✔✔Aided and unaided sound field thresholds
