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| 2 goals of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening |
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Definition
1. Identify hearing loss by 3 months
2. Begin intervention by 6 months |
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Term
| 3 types of objective tests used for infants under 6 months |
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Definition
1. OAEs
2. ABR
3. Tympanometry and Acoustic Reflexes |
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Term
| Behavioral Audiometry technique used to test 6 months to 2 years |
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Definition
| Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (and related techniques) |
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Term
| Behavioral audiometry techniques used for 2 years to 5 years |
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Definition
| Conditioned Play Audiometry |
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Term
Behavioral Observation (Adiometry) BO(A) technique
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Definition
1. Play sound and look for response
2. Response is not "conditioned", looking for any response to sound
- Startle
- Cessation of sucking
- Eyes widening |
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Term
| 3 issues of Behavioral Observation (Adiometry) BO(A) |
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Definition
1. May only see response to high sound levels, even if baby ahs normal hearing
2. Highly subjective
3. This is NOT audiometry, use as last resort only |
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Term
| In Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA), 6 roels of person in booth (test-room examiner) |
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Definition
1. Keep child attentive at midline
2. Social reinforcement for child
3. Don't compete with stimulus, reinforcer
4. Maintain quiet environment
5. Maintain rapport with and cooperation of the parent
6. Quick assistance with earphones |
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Term
| Behavioral audiometry technique with paired stimulus, response, and reinforcement during traning/conditioning phase in which the child turns head in response to sound |
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Definition
| Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA) |
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Term
| 3 transducers used in Visual Reinforcement Audiometry (VRA) |
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Definition
1. Speakers in booth
2. Headphones
3. Bone vibrator |
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Term
| Behavioral audiometry technique in which the child does a play activity in response to hearing a sound |
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Definition
| Conditioned Play Audiometry (CPA) |
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Term
| What does Otoacoustic Emissions tell us? |
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Definition
| Is coclhear (and middle ear) function normal or not |
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Term
| condition that needs both OAE and ABR to diagnose, it has absent ABR and present OAEs |
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Definition
| Auditory neuropathy/dys-synchrony |
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