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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Me! Me!

When in doubt… • Ask a friend in the audience OR • Narrow it to 50/50 OR • Poll the entire audience

ADA stands for: 1) Arkansas Department of Audiology 2) Arkansas Diagnostics Association 3) Arkansas Day of Appreciation 4) Americans with Disabilities Act

• The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is a law that was enacted by the U. S. Congress in 1990. It was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H. W. Bush, and later amended with changes effective January 1, 2009. • The Department of Justice’s revised regulations for Titles II and III of the ADA were published in the Federal Register on September 15, 2010. Standards for Accessible Design. • See article in May/June 2010 Hearing Loss Magazine or www. hearingloss. org

ADA does NOT require assistive listening devices in: 1) Movie Theaters 2) Doctor offices or hospitals 3) Churches 4) Government offices

ALD stands for : 1) American League for the Deaf 2) Assistive Listening Device 3) analyzing logarithms in detail 4) Arkansas Legal Department

BTE stands for : 1) Beltone Technology Enterprises 2) batteries that expire 3) behind-the-ear 4) binaural technological efficiency

CIC stands for : 1) completely-in-the-canal 2) critical impulse charge 3) completely-in-the-cochlea 4) cochlear implant charge

Elvis Presley song: “There will be _____ in the Valley” : 1) Peas 2) Peace 3) Cheese 4) Beans

homophenes - (HOE-moe-feenz) words that look the same on the lips but have different sounds. Shoot, shoes, chews, juice, June and Jews queen and white Buy my pie. mark, park and bark white, right and quite Fail, veil Din, tin Sap, zap Tug, tongue, tuck

DAI stands for : 1) direct audio input 2) Department of Audiology Instructors 3) developmentally and audiologically impaired 4) divine audio input

FM stands for : 1) feedback monitor 2) fingerspelling method 3) frequency modulation 4) none of the above

Lipreading (Speechreading) University of Manchester researchers found that hard of hearing people just using their residual hearing understood 21 percent of speech. If they combined their residual hearing with either a hearing aid or with speechreading, they could understand 64 percent of speech. This is a significant improvement. However, if they used their residual hearing and both hearing aids and speechreading, their speech comprehension soared to 90 percent.

HOH stands for : 1) help on hand 2) hand over heart 3) hope overcomes hurt 4) hard of hearing

IR stands for : 1) intermittent ringing 2) internal radio 3) individualized routing 4) infrared

ITC stands for: 1) International Trade Commission 2) independent test control 3) Idiots That Cheat 4) in-the-canal

ITE stands for : 1) in-the-ear 2) infrared technical enhancements 3) irritating troublesome earmolds 4) Idiots Taking Ecstasy

HLAA stands for : 1) Houston Legal Assistants Association 2) Hearing Loss Association of America 3) Hoosier Llama & Alpaca Association 4) All of the above

HAT stands for : 1) Humans Against Tariffs 2) Hawaii’s Attractive Tourists 3) Hearing Assistive Technology 4) Hearing Aid Tax

COMMUNICATION

Which of the following methods of communication is NOT used to communicate with HOH persons? 1) speech/speechreading 2) Braille 3) ALDs 4) Cued Speech

What is a hard of hearing person’s preferred accommodation during a job interview? : 1) Using an oral interpreter 2) Writing notes 3) Reading lips 4) Depends on the HOH person

Cued Speech uses how many hand shapes? 1) 3 2) 8 3) 5 4) 10

Cued Speech uses how many hand shapes? 1) 3 2) 8 (with 4 different locations near the face) 3) 5 4) 10

Which of the following organizations does not certify interpreters for the deaf? : 1) NAD 2) RID 3) HLAA 4) NAD and RID.

How do you determine if an interpreter is certified? 1. Ask to see his/her certification card. 2. Call the Office for the Deaf & Hearing Impaired 3. Look on his/her driver’s license. 4. Take his/her word for it.

HEARING AIDS

A hook-shaped, thin piece of plastic with a small loop of wire in it that is hung over the ear next to a BTE aid is called a: 1. silhouette 2. hook loop 3. crookneck 4. telecoil

A means of transmitting a signal via radio waves where the frequency (as opposed to its amplitude) of the wave is modulated is called: 1) amplified modulation 2) frequency modulation 3) amplitude modulation 4) pitch modulation

A feature of some hearing aids that allows the aid to “hear” magnetic signals instead of the normal microphone input is called a: 1) magnetron 2) telecoil 3) t-switch 4) 2 and 3

Hearing Loss Association of America

The founder of Hearing Loss Association of America was: 1) Rocky Balboa 2) Rocky Stone 3) Rocky and Bullwinkle 4) none of the above

Rocky Stone • Founded Self Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH) in 1979. • Lost his hearing at age 19 from a nearby explosion during WWII. • Worked for the CIA, retired in 1975. • Died in August 2004 of complications from pneumonia.

The HLAA headquarters is in: 1) Boston, MA 2) Bethesda, MD 3) Washington, DC 4) Disney World

The International HLAA Convention in 2013 is in: 1) Bethesda, MD 2) Dallas, TX 3) San Jose, CA 4) Portland, OR

The International HLAA Convention in 2013 is in: 1) Bethesda, MD 2) Dallas, TX 3) San Jose, CA 4) Portland, OR (June 27 – 30)

The Executive Director of HLAA, Inc. is: 1) Brenda Battat 2) Dottie Wendell 3) Marcia Finisdore 4) Audrey Pleasant

The Executive Director of HLAA, Inc. is: 1) Brenda Battat (will retire Aug 31, 2013) 2) Dottie Wendell 3) Marcia Finisdore 4) Audrey Pleasant

The National HLAA website address is: 1) www. shhh. org 2) www. hearingloss. com 3) www. hearingloss. org 4) www. speakup. com

The MICHIGAN HLA website address is: 1) www. hearingloss-mi. org 2) www. mi-hearingloss. com 3) www. hearinglossmi. org 4) www. hearinglossmi. com

Approximately how many Americans have a hearing loss? 1) 16 million 2) 26 million 3) 36 million 4) 50 million

Approximately how many Michiganians have a hearing loss? 1) 1 million 2) 1. 4 million 3) 2 million 4) 2. 4 million

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