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Bone Conduction Hearing Device Fitting Practices in Pediatrics

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1.  A guideline can be described as a: Summary and appraisal of the best available evidence or expert consensus Step-by-step process of how to achieve a clinical outcome An informal way of evaluating clinical practice A cookbook or recipe, with step by step instructions on how to achieve clinical outcomes.

2.  A protocol for a pediatric hearing aid fitting would be best described as: Behavioral testing Verification and validation A summary of best evidence on hearing aid fittings in children Details that allow a step-by-step operationalization to fulfill a guideline

3.  Which best describes the options for delivering bone conducted sound? Acoustic transformation Direct drive and osseo-integrated drive Skin drive and osseo-integrated drive Direct drive and skin drive

4.  A device designed to measure the output of a bone conduction device is called: Bone density simulator Skull simulator Audioscan Affinity

5.  According to pediatric audiologists in North America who participated in a bone conduction survey, most are using what method to verify their bone conduction fittings? Speech Intelligibility Index (SII) Real Ear to Coupler Difference (RECD) Sound Field Real Ear Measures (REM)

6.  Current recommendations for children to be surgical candidates for bone conduction devices are if they: Have bone/skull density of at least 2.5mm They are approximately 5 years of age They have good bone quality All of the above

7.  According to pediatric audiologists in North America who participated in the bone conduction survey, most are using which self-report questionnaires with their pediatric patients/families? Little Ears IT-MAIS PEACH Both A and C

8.  The output of bone conduction devices are measured in: Newtons of Force [db µN] Hearing Level [HL] Sound Pressure Level [SPL] Vibration Level [VL]

9.  Infants and children may be candidates for bone conduction devices when: They have aural atresia They have conductive or mixed hearing loss They have a stenotic ear canal All of the above

10.  According to pediatric audiologists in North America who participated in the bone conduction survey, insitu measurements with their bone conduction patients were used because: They wanted to address individualization of the fitting and use objective measurements They wanted to validate their fitting. It is part of the AAA fitting guideline All of the above