Aural Rehabilitation
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Course Introduction
Aural Rehabilitation focuses on the strategies and interventions used to help individuals with hearing loss improve communication abilities and overall quality of life. The course covers assessment and management techniques for patients of all ages, including hearing aid use, assistive listening devices, auditory training, speechreading, and counseling. Students will explore the psychosocial impacts of hearing impairment and learn to develop individualized habilitation and rehabilitation plans that address both the audiological and communicative needs of clients. The integration of family, technology, and community resources is also emphasized to support effective lifelong communication.
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Human Communication Disorders 8th Edition by Noma B. Anderson
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Human Communication Disorders: a Philosophy and Practice of Science in Service
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Q1) Speech-language pathologists and audiologists may provide both indirect and direct services to patients and clients.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Julie is a 2-year old with a severe hearing loss.Her parents want their daughter exposed to a total communication approach.Which professionals are most likely to work as a team to develop and provide the treatment?
A)The audiologist and speech-language pathologist
B)The occupational therapist and audiologist
C)The physical therapist and audiologist
D)The classroom teacher and speech-language pathologist
Answer: A
Q3) Audiologists and speech-language pathologists work in educational settings only.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Development of Communication, language, and Speech
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Q1) Phonological processes
A)Are rules for combining individual speech sounds
B)Reflect rules for simplifying speech
C)Demonstrate acoustic,articulatory and perceptual characteristics of speech sounds
D)Reflect baby speech
Answer: B
Q2) Message encoding includes
A)Monitoring messages
B)Receiving messages
C)Translating a concept into linguistic form
D)Processing or understanding a linguistic message
Answer: C
Q3) During the preschool period of language development,function follows form.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Biology and Physics of Speech
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Q1) The phoneme /f/ is a linguadental speech sound.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The mobile articulators include all except A)Teeth
B)Tongue
C)Soft palate
D)Mandible
Answer: A
Q3) Vocal folds vibrating at a rate above produce sounds with a A)Low pitch
B)A very low pitch
C)A somewhat low pitch
D)High pitch
Answer: D
Q4) The acoustics and perception of sound constitutes the physics of speech.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Multicultural and Multilingual Considerations
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Q1) Culture
A)Is arbitrary and changeable
B)Is learned
C)Is a set of values,beliefs and perceptions
D)All of the above
Q2) Speech community
A)A group of people who establish rules for language use
B)A group of people living in the same neighborhood
C)A group of people who use a shared language
D)A group of people sharing racial origins
Q3) Dialects are rule-governed linguistic systems.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The terms accent and dialect may be viewed as synonyms.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Bilingual individuals control parts or all of two languages.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Genetics: Basis for Development and Disorders
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Q1) Each time a gene is passed from one generation to the next,some alterations occur.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Dominant inheritance
A)Inheritance that is passed on to children by both parents
B)Inheritance that is passed on to children by one parent
C)Inheritance that is not passed on to children
D)Inheritance that is passed on to children,but symptoms are not expressed
Q3) Changes within genes can produce proteins that don't work normally or don't work at all,which may result in disease or disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Syndrome
A)A recognizable pattern of abnormalities that indicate a particular trait or disease
B)The visible pattern of an organism's chromosomes
C)Slight variations in our genes that contribute to individual differences
D)The sum of all genes,estimated to contain 30,000 genes
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Chapter 6: Articulatory and Phonological Disorders
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Q1) Normative data on speech development reflect lists of ages at which consonants are expected to be produced correctly.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Therapy for articulation and phonological disorders are only offered in individual sessions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Articulation refers to
A)The motor movements involved in the production of speech
B)Categories of meanings represented by speech sounds
C)Rules of constraints and use of speech sound system
D)All of the above
Q4) During the speech assessment,Emily sometimes said 'puck' instead of 'duck' and 'fum' instead of 'thumb'.The speech-language pathologist labeled these errors as
A)Substitution errors
B)Omission errors
C)Addition errors
D)Distortion errors
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Chapter 7: Stuttering and Other Disorders of Fluency
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Q1) Maria has learned to effectively use several fluency-enhancing techniques.Therefore,when she gives oral presentations in class,she
A)Slows her rate of speech
B)Increases the length of her pauses between phrases and sentences
C)Increases the loudness of voice
D)All of the above
Q2) Aristotle was a person who stuttered.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Stuttering is more prevalent among children who are bilingual.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Many children exhibit stuttering behaviors during their preschool years.A number of these children become fluent speakers without treatment.Those that do recover from stuttering without treatment will probably do so by the age of
A)12 years
B)10 years
C)8 years
D)4 years
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Chapter 8: Voice Disorders
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Q1) Some speech sounds,such as /f,v,s,z/,contain noise.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Four-year old Carrie presented with moderate breathy dysphonia.Endoscopic examination revealed multiple glistening,pinkish white irregular masses located on the right side of the pharyngeal wall,the right regions of the epiglottis,the right region of the thyroid cartilage and the right region of the vocal fold.The medical diagnosis was probably
A)Contact ulcer
B)Laryngeal web
C)Vocal nodule
D)Papillomata
Q3) Speech-language pathologists should always inform physicians of a voice client's medical diagnosis before beginning therapy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Speech is the process of producing complex sounds.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Cleft Lip and Palate and Other Craniofacial Disorders
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Q1) Cleft lip/palate is most likely to occur during the last trimester of pregnancy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) You read Amy's case history report very carefully.You find that Amy's cleft of the palate was located on the left side.It is clear that Amy was born with a
A)Unilateral cleft lip and palate
B)Bilateral cleft lip and palate
C)Unilateral cleft lip,but intact palate
D)Unilateral cleft palate,but intact lip
Q3) The prevalence rates for cleft lip/palate vary among Native Americans,Asians,Caucasians,and persons with African heritage.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Babies born with isolated cleft palate are more likely than those born with cleft lip and palate to have other birth defects that represent an identifiable syndrome.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Neurogenic Disorders of Speech in Children and
Adults
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Q1) The most frequently occurring type of cerebral palsy is spastic cerebral palsy. A)True
B)False
Q2) Apraxia of speech is a well-understood neurogenic speech disorder.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The most frequently occurring dysarthria is spastic dysarthria.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Fasciculations refer to voluntary twitches of individual muscles.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Shaun's hypernasality most likely results from A)Dyskinesia
B)Velopharyngeal competency
C)Velopharyngeal insufficiency
D)Hyperkinetic dysarthria
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Q6) Many children with DAS make slow progress in speech therapy. A)True
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Chapter 11: Developmental Language Impairment During
the Preschool Years
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Q1) Four-year old Michael exhibits severe communication and language delay.He does not interact well with his family or friends and often avoids eye contact.He isolates himself from his peers in daycare preferring to stack blocks repeatedly.When his teachers ask him questions,he simply repeats the question.Lately his parents have noticed that Michael has stopped using many of the words he used previously.The speech-language pathologist decides to structure her evaluation to test the hypothesis that Michael may be exhibiting communication and language behaviors characteristic of
A)Cerebral Palsy
B)Autism or PDD
C)Specific language impairment
D)Hearing impairment
Q2) The speech-language pathologist describes 2 year-old Julie's language sample as consisting mainly of nouns,verbs and adjectives.The speech-language pathologist is describing Julie's
A)Grammar
B)Vocabulary
C)Social uses of language
D)Phonology
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Chapter 12: Language Disabilities in School-Age Children and Youth
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Q1) John performs poorly on tasks of word definitions,identifying synonyms,recognizing the multiple meanings of words and correcting grammatical errors.Further investigation into this area may be enlightening in regards to
A)Phonological processing
B)Metaphorical language ability
C)Attention skills
D)Narrative production
E)Metalinguistic skill
Q2) Students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are more likely to experience SLI than students from mainstream backgrounds.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The language students encounter in school is as complex as the language students encounter at home.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Language assessment guides language intervention.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: From Emergent Literacy to Literacy:
Development and Disorders
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Q1) Children with delayed language development in their preschool years show significantly higher incidence of reading problems than do children without language problems.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The essential elements of literacy include
A)Decoding
B)Encoding
C)Reading Comprehension
D)Writing Composition
E)C and D
Q3) To foster interest in reading,help children focus on the entertaining pictures rather than the boring print.
A)True
B)False
Q4) There is a reciprocal relationship between oral language and literacy.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Aphasia and Related Acquired Language Disorders
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Q1) Aphasiologists and experts in stuttering define the terms "fluent" and "nonfluent" similarly.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Eighteen year-old Bill was in a car accident causing a mild TBI involving the frontal lobe of the left hemisphere.At the time of the evaluation,Bill was exhibiting behaviors reflective of Level 7 in cognitive recovery.His symptoms may include
A)Unilateral severe right-side neglect
B)Progressive memory loss
C)Reduced concentration
D)Phonemic paraphasias
Q3) To visualize Bill's brain injury to determine its extent,his physician requested a A)Transnasal endoscopic examination
B)MRI
C)BDAE
D)CADL-2
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Chapter 15: Augmentative and Alternative Communication
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Q1) Scanning selection methods are preferable for individuals with limited motor abilities.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Ideograms are real life pictures to be used on communication boards.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The purpose of communication for persons with disabilities differs from the purpose of communication for persons without disabilities.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Augmentative communication strategies supplement residual speech,while alternative communication strategies replace speech.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Exemplary clinical practice promotes the concept of viewing AAC users as multi-modal communicators.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Swallowing: Process and Disorders
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Q1) The swallowing evaluation will be conducted in three phases,in the following order
A)Instrumental swallow study,clinical examination,patient/family interview
B)Clinical examination,instrumental study,patient/family interview
C)Patient/family interview,clinical examination,instrumental study
D)Patient/family interview,instrumental study,clinical examination
Q2) The speech-language pathologist wants to measure treatment outcomes for patients learning to use the Mendolsohn maneuver to manage their risk of aspiration.She decides to recruit participants for her study from the Longview Rehabilitation Center.The speech-language pathologist will probably be most successful with completing her study if she plans her investigation using a
A)Class I methodology
B)Class II methodology
C)Class III methodology
D)Class IV methodology
Q3) The normal swallow consists of two phases,oral and pharyngeal.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Hearing and Hearing Disorders
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Q1) Many hospitals have a newborn hearing screening program.The screening methods most often used by such programs include
A)ABR and OAE
B)OAE and electrocochleography
C)Air and bone conduction testing
D)Tympanometry
Q2) Audiometers emit pure tones used for quantitative measurement of hearing thresholds.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Scott's test results suggest a
A)Conductive hearing loss
B)Sensorineural hearing loss
C)Presbycusis
D)Brainstem tumor
Q4) Auditory localization is the ability to identify the direction of the sound source.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Audiologic Rehabilitation
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Q1) As the educational audiologist at Miller Elementary School,you plan a seminar to educate parents,teachers and students about the goals of an audiologic rehabilitation program.You tell them that
A)The primary goal of audiologic rehabilitation is to facilitate successful academic performance
B)You are responsible for the diagnosis and quantification of hearing loss and for making referrals when special testing is needed
C)You will provide counseling and guidance about hearing loss as needed
D)All of the above
Q2) The earlier a child with hearing loss is identified and treated,the better the prognosis for speech and language development.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Bone conduction hearing aids are most appropriate for persons concerned with the cosmetic features of the aid.
A)True
B)False
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