You are a clinical audiologist who specializes in the pediatric population. Today, on your caseload, you have a 27-month-old male toddler who is scheduled to have surgery because of repeated bouts of middle ear infection that have affected his hearing and development of both speech and language, which is about 6 months behind age-matched peers. All other gross- and fine-motor developmental milestones of this child are within normal limits.
(a) Which audiometric assessment technique will you use with this 27-month-old toddler?
(b) Describe this assessment....that is, why does the audiologist use this assessment on this age range? (Hint: Think about milestones of speech and language in both this client and in this age population to answer this question.)
(c) Can you get ear-specific information with this assessment technique? If yes, how can this information be obtained?
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