ILE Hearing Aid Dispenser Practice Test 260

ILE Hearing Aid Dispenser Practice Test 260+ Questions and Answers 100% Correct Guaranteed Success _____ and ____ must be combined with speech to optimize audibility and intelligibility

• sign language, signed English
• lipreading, sign language
• visual ques, good communication practices

D. captions, speechreading - Correct Answer:C. visual ques, good communication

practices

____and ____ are two lifestyle issues that the recommendations for style and/ or accessories must consider

• cosmetic appeal; cost
• Telephone use; television viewing
• swimming; playing cards
• Challenges hearing at work; hearing at weddings when the band is playing - Correct

Answer:B. Telephone use; television viewing

A gateway device has a unique manufacture specific name but they all ___

• connect hearing instruments to a bluetooth enabled devices and convert the hearing

instruments into a wireless headset for binaural hearing

• provide captions
• require a connection directly into the hearing instruments
• derive their power from the hearing aid batteries - Correct Answer:A. connect hearing

instruments to a bluetooth enabled devices and convert the hearing instruments into a wireless headset for binaural hearing

A hearing health care professional is preforming tympanometry on a PT who has a malfunctioning eustachian tube. which type of tympanometry should be anticipated? -

Correct Answer:C

A new binaural fitting has just been completed. The wearer complains that the hearing instruments sound much too tinny. The hearing aid specialist adjusts the frequency response of the hearing aids and solicits the wearer's impression to find complete listening satisfaction. The speech mapping is repeated but fitting targets are now way off. The hearing aid specialist ________.

• returns that settings to where they were when they met all targets and tells the

wearer that they'll just have to get used to it

• ignores all of the real ear data and addresses that cosmetic appeal of the instruments
• documents the printed speech mapping results and the wearer's chart notes that the

real ear data reflect the PT preferred settings

• ignores the prescriptive targets and preforms soundfield testing - Correct Answer:C.

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A new PT makes an appointment for a repair of their older BTE. There is an accumulation of wax and debris in the tubing. Once the tubing is changed, feedback is eliminated and a sound check indicates that the aid is working nicely. The new PT reports that they need the performance adjusted, they're just not hearing too well. The hearing aid specialist.

• connected the hearing instrument to the manufacture's software and makes

adjustments until the PT reports improvement.

• Has them make a return appointment for an evaluation for new hearing aids
• preforms a hearing test, reprograms the instrument, and preforms real-ear

verification.

• Tells them that they will not work on hearing aids that are 5 years old - Correct

Answer:C. preforms a hearing test, reprograms the instrument, and preforms real-ear verification.

A PT complains of a foul smelling fluid coming from the right ear. Otoscopy reveals debris and fluid originating from the superior portion of the TM. What is the likely cause

of these symptoms - Correct Answer:Cholesteatoma

A PT earmold tubing needed changing because it was so stiff it broke at the sound nozzle/sound hook. The mold had #13 think tubes , but only #12 tubing is now available.the hearing instrument specialist can ____

• make a return appointment when the #13 tubing comes in
• use the #12
• recommend that the PT purchase new earmolds
• use the #12 tubing, verify the fitting using probe microphone measurements, and re-

program the hearing instrument as needed. - Correct Answer:D. use the #12 tubing, verify the fitting using probe microphone measurements, and re-program the hearing instrument as needed.

a PT is referred by a physician who diagnosed mucoid otitis media the previous day.

How will the PT TM likely appear. - Correct Answer:opaque and normal

a PT who communicates in different language than the hearing healthcare professional arrives for a hearing evaluation. what test should a hearing healthcare professional

include in the evaluation? - Correct Answer:SAT

A typically large ECV - Correct Answer:TM perforation or ventilation tube flat graph

A variation of the HA-1 coupler is used for ____ and is called the ____

• children; SB-1
• IIC's; HA-3
• real ear verification; 2cc coupler
• RIC's and thin-tube fittings; SB-1 - Correct Answer:D. RIC's and thin-tube fittings;

SB-1

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A wearer's ______ is calculated from the ______measurements and compared to the prescriptive targets used for "first fit" programming.

• REUR; REAR and REIG
• insertion loss ; REIG and REUR
• REIG;REUR and REAR

D. insertion response; real ear gain - Correct Answer:C. REIG;REUR and REAR

a woman walks through the front door of her split-level house and hears her daughter and a friend talking downstairs in the family room.what allows the woman to discern that her daughter is downstairs instead of upstairs. -

Correct Answer:auricle and canal resonance

Active and consistent use of amplification will enable the full potential and benefits from the hearing instruments

• true

B. false - Correct Answer:true

ALDs can be categorized according to ____

• those that connect to the hearing instruments and those that connent to cochlear

implants

• the type of alerting device that they activate
• whether they are powered by bluetooth or a 2.4 GHz source
• those that help connect the person with hearing loss to other people and those that

accommodate an activity of daily living - Correct Answer:D. those that help connect the person with hearing loss to other people and those that accommodate an activity of daily living

Although the fitting preference is always to restore binaural hearing, there are situations when a monaural fitting is indicated. Such a situation might be ____

• when the hearing aid candidate decides they only want one because they will appear

less handicapped

• due to cost issues
• when poor binaural fusion is measured
• when the hearing loss is profound - Correct Answer:C. when poor binaural fusion is

measured

Another aspect of counseling involves introducing the PT to aural rehabilitation to ____

• enhance their listening skills through improvements in auditory memory and

processing speed

• avoid asking "what or HUH"
• enjoy group social events on a monthly basis
• re-train their brain to eventually do without hearing aids - Correct Answer:A. enhance

their listening skills through improvements in auditory memory and processing speed

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ANSI publishes standards for several hearing instrument professional issues, such as audiometric test environment and equipment calibration

• true

B. false - Correct Answer:true

ANSI stand from ____

• national standard institute
• American national specifications institute
• acoustical and national standards institute

D. American national standards institute - Correct Answer:D. American national

standards institute

ANSI testing is benefital in that the results can be :

• used as the manufacturing standard for quality control purposes
• duplicated from one test facility to another
• applied clinically

D. all the above - Correct Answer:D. all the above

Audiometric methods of hearing instrument fitting validation are sometimes referred to as ____

• objective/subjective methods
• Soundfield audiometry
• Subjective methods

D. Objective methods - Correct Answer:D. Objective methods

Auditory deprivation is the loss of speech understanding capabilities in an ear receiving inadequate acoustic stimulation

• true

B. false - Correct Answer:A. true

BTE's and RIC's can be fit using either generic domes or custom earmolds

• True

B. False - Correct Answer:A. True

common complaints about the quality of the PT own voice are that its echo-y or tinny.These can often be addressed by ____ and ___, respectively

• increasing the low frequency gain, increasing the high frequency gain
• decreasing the low frequency gain, increasing the high frequency gain
• increasing the low frequency gain, decreasing the high frequency gain
• decreasing the low frequency gain, decreasing the high frequency gain. - Correct

Answer:D. decreasing the low frequency gain, decreasing the high frequency gain.

contact with which anatomical feature can cause a cough reflex - Correct

Answer:branch of vagus nerve

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