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| the role of audiologists in diagnosing hearing loss is to obtain (or estimate) the ___, ___, & ___ of hearing loss in each ear |
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| severity; configuration; type |
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What is needed for an audiologist to diagnose a hearing loss?
-___ & ___ procedures to use with patients of all ages & abilities
-___ -specific information
-___-specific information
-___ and ___-conduction thresholds |
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| Valid; reliable; Frequency; Ear; Air- & bone |
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| What are 5 variables that may influence behavioral responses? |
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-Age & development
-Cognitive ability
-Language
-Motivation
-Attention |
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| physically measureable; independent of subjective interpretation |
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measuring hearing sensitivity based on predictions made from
physiologic response to sound |
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| not physically measurable, but perceived only by the individual involved |
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| “using scientific & skillful methods to establish the cause & nature of hearing loss” |
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| determination of a disease or disorder in a patient from among two or more diseases or disorders with similar symptoms or findings |
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| the locus of a pathologic change |
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| series of tests designed to identify the location of a lesion |
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| site of lesion test battery |
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| pertaining to the sensory end organs and their nerve fibers |
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| prediction of the course or outcome of a disease or proposed treatment |
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| decibel notation used on the audiogram that is referenced to audiometric zero |
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| decibel notation referenced to behavioral thresholds of a sample of normal-hearing persons, used most often to describe the intensity level of click stimuli used in evoked potential audiometry |
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| dB nHL decibels normalized hearing level |
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| decibel level of a 1000-Hz tone at an amplitude equivalent to the peak of a transient signal; used to express the intensity level of click stimuli used in auditory evoked potential testing |
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dB peSPL-decibels peak equivalent sound pressure
level |
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| age of an individual from date of birth |
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| age at which children acquire specific skills |
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| grade-level equivalent age of a student based on standardized achievement tests |
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| age since conception, measured in weeks and days from the first day of the last normal menstrual period |
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| intellectual age, as measured on standardized tests |
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| association of specialists, manufacturers, and consumers that determines standards for measuring instruments |
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| ANSI-American National Standards Institute |
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| entire collection of methods and equipment available to a practitioners |
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| of sudden onset & short duration |
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| dissimilarity between two or more like parts that are normally similar; e.g. lack of symmetry between ears on some auditory measure |
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| to reduce in magnitude; to decrease |
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| reduction in the sound energy of a signal as it is transmitted by bone conduction from one side of the head to the opposite ear |
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| interaural attenuation (IA) |
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| reduction in the ability to manipulate acoustic signals, despite normal hearing sensitivity and regardless of language, attention, and cognition ability |
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| APD-auditory processing disorder |
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| deficit in hearing function based on dysfunction of the auditory system |
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| Abnormal auditory function somewhere in the auditory system (anywhere from the external ear to the auditory cortex) |
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| disturbance in auditory structure, function, or both |
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| functional disorder resulting from diseases of or trauma to the central auditory nervous system |
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| central auditory disorder |
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| functional disorder resulting from diseases of or trauma to the external ear, middle ear, cochlea, and CN VIII |
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| peripheral auditory disorder |
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| uditory disorder that appears to disrupt synchronous activity of the auditory nervous system, characterized by normal cochlear OHC function, abnormal ABR, absent acoustic reflexes, and threshold and supra-threshold hearing disorder of varying degrees; SYN: auditory neuropathy |
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Auditory Sensitivity:
-Thresholds for some type of auditory response, but not necessarily a ___ response
-Auditory sensitivity & hearing sensitivity may be the ___ (especially in adults)
-Auditory & hearing sensitivity may ___ be the same. |
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| category of mentally or physically handicapping conditions that appear in infancy or early childhood and are related to abnormal development |
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| the application of rapid & simple hearing tests, to a large population consisting of individuals who are undiagnosed and typically asymptomatic, to identify those who require additional diagnostic procedure |
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Terms Related to the Performance of Test Methods:
-___ ___ ___: specified disorder to target; in audiology – hearing loss
-___: ability to correctly identify persons with the target disorder
-____: ability to correctly identify persons without the target disorder
-Both expressed as ___
-Typically ___ related
-Ideally, want ___ values of both |
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| Target disorder/hearing loss; Sensitivity; Specificity; percentages; inversely; high |
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Terms Related to Outcomes on Tests:
-False ___ result: incorrect fail result for a person without the target disorder
– Person with normal hearing “___” on screening
-False ___ result: incorrect “pass” result for a person with the target disorder
– Person with hearing loss ___ screening |
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| positive; refers; negative; passes |
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| a condition that renders the use of a treatment or procedure inadvisable |
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| in pediatric audiology, the concept that no single test result obtained during pediatric assessment should be considered valid until an independent cross-check of its validity has been obtained |
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| the perception of sound in one ear that has crossed over the head by bone-conduction transmission of a sound presented through an earphone to the opposite ear; SYN: crossover |
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| the process in which sound presented to one ear through an earphone crosses the head via bone conduction and is perceived by the other ear; SYN: cross hearing |
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Limitations of Objective Measures:
-Objective measures do not measure ___; only ___ measures do
-Implication: when possible, continue diagnostic process until
thorough evaluation of auditory function is done; & treatment effectiveness is confirmed with ___ measures
-Abnormal findings do not necessarily mean ___ ___
-A single measure typically provides only ___ information about hearing status
-Do not yield information about speech ___
-Give no information about cortical ___ dysfunction |
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| hearing; behavioral; behavioral; hearing loss; limited; understanding; auditory |
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Strengths of Objective Measures:
1. Have high sensitivity to ___ ___
2. Yield ___-specific information (e.g. middle ear to cortex)
3. Valid measures can be obtained on patients of all ___.
4. Reasonable ___ time
5. Can use with individuals who are ___ or ___ to
complete behavioral measures
6. Not influenced by ___
7. Not influenced by ___ status
8. Not influenced by ___ status
9. Not influenced by ___, or whether asleep or awake
10. Can be done when patients receive ___ or ___
11. Do not require patients to follow ___. |
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| auditory dysfunction; site; ages; testing; unable; unwilling; motivation; cognitive; motor; attention anesthesia; sedation; instructions |
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| method for measuring the auditory brainstem response in which recording parameters are under computer control and detection of a response is determined automatically by computer-based algorithms |
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