Audiology, Swallowing, and Neurological Disorders Lecture Notes

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Audiologic Habilitation Services

Providing audiological services to children with hearing loss, including those with cochlear implants or hearing aids.

Cochlear Implant Use

A severe to profound hearing loss.

Otoscopic Examination

Visualizing the eardrum to assess the ear canal and tympanic membrane.

Assistive Listening Device (FM System)

A device used to improve hearing in various listening situations.

Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Hearing loss with similar air and bone conduction thresholds.

Noise Exposure Result

Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Sensorineural Hearing Loss Cause

Damage to the cochlea.

Conductive Hearing Loss Component

Hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer or middle ear.

Tympanometry

To evaluate the condition of the middle ear.

0 dB Line on Audiogram

The average hearing threshold of young adults.

Tinnitus

Ringing in the ears.

100 dB Threshold of Audibility

Profound Hearing Loss

Consonants /s/ and /th/ in Speech Discrimination

High-frequency consonants crucial for speech understanding.

Unit of Sound Measurement

Decibel (dB).

Eardrum Connection

Malleus.

Cochlea Content

Fluid.

Stapes Footplate Location

Oval window.

Unit of Frequency Measurement

Hertz (Hz).

Physical Correlate of Loudness

Intensity.

Sensory Organ for Hearing

Organ of Corti.

Middle Ear Bones

Stapes, Malleus, and Incus.

Eardrum Energy Conversion

Acoustic energy changes to mechanical energy.

Disturbance in a Medium

Sound Wave

Food/Fluid Entering Trachea

Aspiration.

Bolus Formation Stage

Oral phase.

Most Common Cause of Dysphagia

Neuromuscular problems or deficits.

Purposes of Eating

Hydration, nutrition, and pleasure.

Sequence of Swallowing Stages

Anticipatory, oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal.

Oral Stages of Swallowing

Mastication and formation of the bolus.

Brainstem Nuclei for Swallowing Cranial Nerves

Medulla.

Causes of Dysphagia in Oral Cancer

Surgery, radiation.

Swallowing Problems in Premature Infants

Uncoordinated suck and swallow, absence of primitive reflexes, breathing problems.

Dysphagia Assessment Difference in Children

Observation of lip and tongue use to get food off a spoon.

Gurgly Sound After Swallow

Presence of bolus on vocal folds.

Gastric Tube

Surgically placed directly in the stomach.

Dysphagia Causes in Dementia

Reduced oral awareness, slow oral movements, holding food too long, impaired initiation.

Moving Clot in an Artery

Embolus.

Swelling Around Injury

Edema

Defect in Artery Wall

Aneurysm

Early Sign of Short-Term Memory Defects

Dementia

Another Name for Neoplasm

Tumor

Location of Prominent Jargon

Wernicke's Area.

Difficulty Retrieving Words/Labels

Anomic Aphasia

Alzheimer's Disease Cause

Changes in neurons of the cerebrum, such as plaques.

Difficulty with Time and Location

Right Hemisphere Brain Damage

Language Development Compared to

Chronological age.

Areas of Disability in Autism

Social, linguistic, and cognitive areas.