Speech and Language Development — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: What is the best audiometric test for confirming hearing loss in infants?_____

Answer: BERA

Flashcard 2: Which objective audiometry test is considered unsuitable for testing hearing in infants and young children because it is affected by sleep and sedation?

Answer: CERA (Cortical Evoked Response Audiometry)

Extra: CERA is a late latency response (LLR) that is highly dependent on the patient's state of alertness and is significantly affected or abolished by sleep and sedation. Since infants and uncooperative children often need to be asleep or sedated for objective testing, CERA is considered unsuitable for them. In contrast, BERA (Brainstem Evoked Response Audiometry) is a short-latency response that is not affected by sleep or sedation, making it the gold standard for objective hearing assessment in children.

Flashcard 3: Speech audiometry consists of _____ and SDS.

Answer: SRT

Flashcard 4: _____ phenomenon means that with an increase in speech intensity above a particular level, the PB word score falls rather than maintain a plateau

Answer: Roll over

Flashcard 5: Short increment sensitivity score (SISI) is a test of intensity discrimination which is _____ in cochlear pathologies

Answer: very high

Flashcard 6: The following instrument is a _____

Answer: tympanometer

Flashcard 7: _____ is the psycho acoustic unit of noise

Answer: Phon

Extra: 

Flashcard 8: In noise induced hearing loss, there is a dip in the _____ conduction curve, called as Boiler's notch, maximally at 4000 Hz

Answer: bone and air

Flashcard 9: Negative Rinne for 256, 512 and 1024 Hz indicates a minimum AB gap of _____, 30, 45 dB, respectively.

Answer: 15

Flashcard 10: _____ test examines the effect of increased air pressure in ear canal on bone conduction

Answer: Gelle's