AUDIOLOGY PRAXIS CORRECT TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Which of the following is NOT used as an alerting device for hearing-impaired
people?
a. Flashlights/strobe lights
b. transducers to shake beds
c. trained hearing ear dogs
d. all of the above - ✔✔All of the above
✔✔Children with hearing loss diagnosed by the time they are ____ old can with early
intervention, be expected to have language development equivalent to that of their
normal hearing peers by the time they are ____ old.
a. six months, five years
b. one years, three years
c. three months, six years
d. this cannot be predicted - ✔✔Six months and then five years
✔✔*Which of the following is NOT a current issue for providers and recipients of aural
rehabilitation services?
a. There is not enough public information available about aural rehabilitation
b. There is not an identified body for professional certification of audiologists
c. There is not always a hearing aid orientation provided by audiologists/SLPs
d. There is not counseling included in most AR programs' goals and objectives -
✔✔There is not an identified body for professional certification of audiologists
✔✔Which of the following is correct regarding insurance coverage of hearing aids?
a. Medicare always covers hearing aids for adults and children
b. Medicaid is required to cover hearing aids for children and adults
c. Medicaid must cover children's hearing aids and often can cover adults
d. Private health insurance plans always cover child and adult hearing aids -
✔✔Medicaid must cover children's hearing aids and often can cover adults
, ✔✔Which of the following is NOT including in the scope of an audiologist's practice
when working with families of hearing impaired children
a. Providing emotional support and counseling
b. Observing parents for acute emotional reactions
c. Referring parents to mental health professionals
d. Providing mental health counseling services - ✔✔Providing mental health counseling
services
✔✔Microtic means
a. a microscopically small tic
b. an abnormally small pinna
c. an otic type of microphone
d. none of the above - ✔✔An abnormally small pinna
✔✔*A person's eustachian tubes must function normally for
a. a myringoplasty to work
b. the person to breathe
c. the person to swallow
d. the individual to hear - ✔✔A myringoplasty to work
normal eustachian tube function is needed for a myringoplasty, or a repair of the
eardrum to work
A person can have eustachian tube dysfunction and still breathe, swallow, and hear
✔✔Eustachian tube function can be tested using
a. the Valsalva maneuver
b. catheterizing the tubes
c. impedance audiometry
d. any or all of these - ✔✔Any or all of these
Valsalva and impedance audiometry make sense; I had not heard of catheterizing the
tubes
*this is placing a cannula in the nose and sending air into the eustachian tubes
✔✔*When conducting an otolaryngology exam, an otologist should test of the function
of the auditory/vestibular nerve, the facial nerve and other cranial nerves. Which of the
following groups are NOT other nerves whose function the otologist should test?
a. Trigeminal and abducens
b. Glossopharyngeal and Vagus
c. Olfactory and Oculomotor
d. Accessory and Hypoglossal - ✔✔Olfactory and Oculomotor
Otologists should test the function of cranial nerves V-XII
✔✔*If an examiner finds a patient has a missing or decreased corneal reflex in one eye,
which of the following cranial nerves is affected which could indicate an acoustic
neuroma?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Which of the following is NOT used as an alerting device for hearing-impaired
people?
a. Flashlights/strobe lights
b. transducers to shake beds
c. trained hearing ear dogs
d. all of the above - ✔✔All of the above
✔✔Children with hearing loss diagnosed by the time they are ____ old can with early
intervention, be expected to have language development equivalent to that of their
normal hearing peers by the time they are ____ old.
a. six months, five years
b. one years, three years
c. three months, six years
d. this cannot be predicted - ✔✔Six months and then five years
✔✔*Which of the following is NOT a current issue for providers and recipients of aural
rehabilitation services?
a. There is not enough public information available about aural rehabilitation
b. There is not an identified body for professional certification of audiologists
c. There is not always a hearing aid orientation provided by audiologists/SLPs
d. There is not counseling included in most AR programs' goals and objectives -
✔✔There is not an identified body for professional certification of audiologists
✔✔Which of the following is correct regarding insurance coverage of hearing aids?
a. Medicare always covers hearing aids for adults and children
b. Medicaid is required to cover hearing aids for children and adults
c. Medicaid must cover children's hearing aids and often can cover adults
d. Private health insurance plans always cover child and adult hearing aids -
✔✔Medicaid must cover children's hearing aids and often can cover adults
, ✔✔Which of the following is NOT including in the scope of an audiologist's practice
when working with families of hearing impaired children
a. Providing emotional support and counseling
b. Observing parents for acute emotional reactions
c. Referring parents to mental health professionals
d. Providing mental health counseling services - ✔✔Providing mental health counseling
services
✔✔Microtic means
a. a microscopically small tic
b. an abnormally small pinna
c. an otic type of microphone
d. none of the above - ✔✔An abnormally small pinna
✔✔*A person's eustachian tubes must function normally for
a. a myringoplasty to work
b. the person to breathe
c. the person to swallow
d. the individual to hear - ✔✔A myringoplasty to work
normal eustachian tube function is needed for a myringoplasty, or a repair of the
eardrum to work
A person can have eustachian tube dysfunction and still breathe, swallow, and hear
✔✔Eustachian tube function can be tested using
a. the Valsalva maneuver
b. catheterizing the tubes
c. impedance audiometry
d. any or all of these - ✔✔Any or all of these
Valsalva and impedance audiometry make sense; I had not heard of catheterizing the
tubes
*this is placing a cannula in the nose and sending air into the eustachian tubes
✔✔*When conducting an otolaryngology exam, an otologist should test of the function
of the auditory/vestibular nerve, the facial nerve and other cranial nerves. Which of the
following groups are NOT other nerves whose function the otologist should test?
a. Trigeminal and abducens
b. Glossopharyngeal and Vagus
c. Olfactory and Oculomotor
d. Accessory and Hypoglossal - ✔✔Olfactory and Oculomotor
Otologists should test the function of cranial nerves V-XII
✔✔*If an examiner finds a patient has a missing or decreased corneal reflex in one eye,
which of the following cranial nerves is affected which could indicate an acoustic
neuroma?
