The number of persons afflicted per

a segment of the population is

known as…

Your Answer: Prevalence

2. Which phrase includes services provided by

audiologists to minimize the effects of
hearing loss, balance problems, or other
auditory disorders on patients’ lives?

Your Answer: Auditory rehabilitation

Correct Answer: Audiologic rehabilitation

3. The roles of audiologists and speech-

language pathologists in the provision of
auditory rehabilitation have been described
as…

Your Answer: All of the above

4. What procedure would most likely be used

when conducting an audiologic evaluation on
a 4-month old infant?

Your Answer: Visual reinforcement

audiometry
Correct Answer: Behavioral observation
audiometry

5. What does the red audiometric symbol “O”

mean?

Your Answer: Unmasked air conduction

threshold for the right ear

6. Severe hearing losses are those that include

which of the following ranges of dB HL?

Your Answer: 71 to 90
7. Site of lesion for sensorineural hearing losses
may include…

Your Answer: Inner ear

8. What type of hearing loss is shown on this

audiogram?

Your Answer: Sensorineural

Correct Answer: Mixed

9. What type of hearing loss(es)

are not associated with significant air-bone
gaps?

Your Answer: A and C

Correct Answer: Sensorineural

10. The softest hearing level that the patient can

detect the presence of speech 50% of the
time is known as…

Your Answer: Speech reception

threshold
Correct Answer: Speech awareness
threshold
11. If a patient’s speech recognition threshold in
their right ear is 25 dB HL and words for
obtaining speech recognition scores are
presented at 35 dB SL (re: SRT), the
audiometer attenuator dial would read…

Your Answer: 35 dB HL
Correct Answer: None of the above

12. A post-lingual hearing loss is one that

occurs...

Your Answer: After 5 years of age

13. Which of the following terms refers to

problems in body function or structure or of a
physiological or psychological function such
as a significant deviation or loss?

Your Answer: Impairment

14. The WHO International Classification of

Functioning, Disabilities, and Health (2001)
can be used to describe:

Your Answer: All of the above

15. Our sense of balance requires gathering

information from which of the following
senses?

Your Answer: Vestibular

Correct Answer: All of the above