11/29/06

Adult female came in for her new hearing aids. She is a long time wearer so she knew exactly what she needed to do. The clinician was having trouble with a "swooshing" sound but as I was leaving, they were slowly eliminating the sound. I did not get to see the end of this session.

11/15/06

CAPD-adult female
Tymps and otoscopy were normal. She had a high frequency mild loss binaurally. They gave her a break so they could test another pt so I didn't get to see any more results.

REM- adult female
This lady was absolutely precious. They tested her speech awareness by saying her name. The pt. walked up to the speaker when she heard it and said "where are you at, dear?" :) Her hearing was around 20 dB.

11/8/06

Adult/male
He was expected to be deaf and blind but testing showed that he could hear around 55 dB. He was mentally handicapped so behavioral responses were used. Otoscopy was normal. The pt was difficult to test because he stomped, moved, and yelled.

Adult/male
DPS screening- normal otoscopy, tymps, and acoustic reflexes. His audiogram was the same as the previous one.

Child/male
This was the cutest kid ever. He answered "yeh" for everything. The pt had to give Mrs. Neldon a high five if he heard the tone. He had a loss but it was not his true threshold since it was given through soundfield.

11/1/06

Adult male came in for a screening. Otoscopy showed that he had too much cerumen to test his hearing. He was given names of over-the-counter products to help and also told to go see a physician.

10/25/06

No clients were scheduled.

10/18/04

Clinic was cancelled for the day.

10/11/06

This was the most interesting observation I've done. The patient came in because she has been having understanding problems in the classroom. After her hearing was found to be normal, the clinician began testing central auditory processing. Several methods were used to test this including:
-words and background noise were presented at the same time
-present 2 words at the same time to opposite ears & the pt. repeats both words
-present 2 sentences to opp. ears & pt. repeats the sentences given in a specific ear
Auditory Fusion Test- Revised
-one tone is presented binaurally & pt. tells when tone sounds like two tones
Spondaic Words for Masking Level Difference
-present spondees with masking noise as both in-phase and out-of-phase
(normal auditory processing can understand better when out-of-phase)

Her results were ok (she was in the first standard deviation??). She was advised to sit in the front of the classroom and ask the teacher for handouts of the lectures.

10/4/06

This week I observed a lovely elderly lady. She came in to have her hearing aids checked. The clinician used audiometry, SRT, WR, MCL, and UCL to examine her hearing. The patient's hearing aids were making sounds too loud. After looking at the previous settings, the low freq. were too loud for the amount of loss. I did not get to see the end of the session. Hopefully, she is happy with the changes! So this makes 2 for 2 on HAC for me...

9/27/06 observation

-I saw the end of a session with an adult male. I got to see the pure tone audiometry part of his screening. His hearing was normal and he had no change from the last visit.

-The next patient was an elderly female. She came in for a consultation about her brand new hearing aids. She is a first-time wearer (user?). The clinician gave instructions on how to use and care for the aids and then she programmed them. To program, word recognition was used to see what sounds she could hear for both ears and individual ears. Overall, this visit was very successful.

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