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| Intervention and alleviation of the difficulties associated with a hearing loss. |
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| Slight to minimal hearing loss |
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| Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss |
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| Prelingual, postlingual, deafened |
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| The three categories of severe hearing loss (deafness) |
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| Impairment present at birth or prior to the development of speech and language. The longer during the crucial language development years that a person has normal hearing, the less chance there is that language development will be profoundly affected. |
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| loss occurs after age 5; its overall effects are therefore usually less serious. Speech and education will be affected substantially. |
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| Those who lose hearing after their schooling is completed (ie sometime in their late teen years of thereafter. Normal speech, language and education can be acquired by these individuals, but difficulty in verbal communication and other social, emotional, and vocational problems may occur. |
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| Damage in the outer or middle ear. |
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| Sensorineural hearing loss |
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| impairment in the inner ear or nerve of hearing |
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| A combination of conductive and sensorineural hearing loss. |
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| May be amendable to medical intervention |
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| Sensorineural Hearing Loss |
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| Primarily aided through audiologic rehabilitation. |
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| Those with severe and profound sensorineural loss may obtain a _______. |
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| With successful cochlear implantation, speech may be quite understandable. What type of hearing impairment does this describe? |
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| They face problems of adjustment because of the late onset of their hearing loss. What kind of hearing loss does this describe? |
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| Voice may be too soft or too loud; they understand others by speechreading, by using a hearing aid, or by asking the speaker to raise his or her voice and to enunciate more distinctly. |
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| Outer ear damage; requires medical intervention |
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| Speech Recognition Ability |
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| The ability to recognize speech; note that the degree and the onset of a hearing impairment do not solely define a person's speech/recognition abilities. |
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| ___ in 1,000 are identified with a hearing loss as newborns. |
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This symbol O is used on an audiogram for recording what?
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| This symbol > is used on an audiogram for recording what? |
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| Right ear bone conduction |
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| The symbol < is used on an audiogram for recording what? |
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The symbol X is used on an audiogram for recording what?
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| Medical treatment or surgery to restore all or part of hearing is usually possible in the following type(s) of loss: |
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| Sensorineural and mixed with large sensorineural component; conductive and mixed |
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| There is usually a problem with clarity of hearing in the following types of losses: |
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| There may be a problem in the cochlea in the following type(s) of loss: |
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| There is a problem in the outer or middle ear in the following type(s) of loss(es): |
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| The shape of the audiogram |
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| The configuration of a hearing loss is determined by what? |
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| What are the traditional speech frequencies? |
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| The degree of loss corresponding to a 91 to 110 dB loss is...? |
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| Those who were born without hearing and those who lost their hearing before the age of five years. |
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| The prelingually deaf refer to the group of people that... |
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| Which part of the ear contains the ossicular chain? |
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| outer ear -> middle ear -> inner ear -> auditory nerve |
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| How do we define the air conduction pathway of hearing? |
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| inner ear -> auditory nerve |
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| How do we define the bone conduction pathway of hearing? |
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| Sensorineural hearing loss |
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| When air conduction is impaired and bone conduction is impaired to the same degree, what type of hearing loss is this? |
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| When air conduction is impaired and bone conduction is normal what type of hearing loss is this? |
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| When air conduction is impaired and bone conduction is impaired but to a lesser degree, what type of hearing loss is this? |
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| When describing something that has to do with both ears which of the following words would you use? |
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| Converts mechanical to hydraulic to electrochemical energy |
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| Transmit electrochemical (nerve) impulses to brain |
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| 1. Arousal 2. Space perception 3. Comprehension 4. Voice control 5. Compression and Acquisition of Speech and Language |
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| Name the 5 Functions of hearing. |
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| Frequency and intensity range of conversational level of speech at 3 ft away. |
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| The cochlea and inner ear develop at _____ prenatally. |
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-Newborn is aware of sound
-Not paying much attention to little sounds because they have nothing to associate with it-it has no meaning yet
-Learning to put meaning with those sounds so it's becoming more meaningful to them (ie: mother's voice, footsteps, etc) |
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Time in which child...
-Recognizes mom's voice
-Stops crying to listen
-Enjoys noise making toys
-Listens to her own sounds
-Most importantly--learned that sound is used for communication |
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Child is able to..
-Localize by turning head to sound
-Enjoys hearing his own voice ->vocalizing, cooing, babbling, etc
-More vowels occur in babbling in earlier stages->later becomes more consonants |
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| All of the skills learned as a child develops lead to ____, which begins with a conscious awareness of the presence or absence of sound. Then it becomes more sophisticated. |
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-baby is becoming "human"
-increased motor control
-more involvement with the world
-likes recriprocal vocal play
-enjoys being sung to
-can bounce to rhythm of music
-uses auditory cues to orient unseen space |
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| The ability to locate the sound source. This is an important step in the process of developing listening or auditory skills. |
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| Early on in the process of developing listening skills, by ________ a sound we begin to associate a sound with WHAT made the sound. |
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| Audiologists don't rely (fully) on the localization ability until about ___ of age when testing the hearing of babies. |
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| 1. Detection or Awareness 2. Discrimination 3. Identification/Recognition 4. Comprehension |
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| The 4 Levels of Erber's Approach to auditory training |
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T/F?
The 4 stages of Erber's approach are going on sequentially as well as simultaneously. |
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| ____% of children 18 years and under have a hearing loss. |
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| ___ in every 1000 infants born in the US have some degree of hearing loss. |
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| ___ in every 1,000 born in the US have a severe or profound hearing loss. |
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| ____% of children with only minimal hearing loss fail at least one grade in school. |
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| ____ % of children who are hard of hearing have a disability in addition to their hearing loss. |
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| To amplify or make sounds louder. |
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| Increases the strength of the electrical signal in a hearing aid. |
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| On a hearing aide, a small loud speaker called a _________ functions to convert the amplified signals back to sound waves. |
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| A special circuit designed to enhance the use of the HA with the telephone. Electromagnetic signals are picked up from the receiver of the telephone (leakage), amplified and trandsuced to acoustic energy before entering the ear. |
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| Rotating wheel that allows the user to select a preferred listening level for a specific listening environment. Discuss affect of changing volume to make squealing go away. Not all HAs have one. |
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| Have larger microphones, amplifiers, and power supplies. Case is such that it has to be carried in a pocket or attached to clothing. This style is not as popular as other styles because of it's size and mike placement. |
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| Microphone, amplifier and receiver are built into the template of the eyeglasses. Rarely selected today. |
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| Used mostly with children. Very powerful, the most powerful of all the hearing aids. Virtually has replaced the body aid. Has to be coupled with an ear-mold in order to get sound into the ear. |
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| HA and earmold are all one piece. It fills the concha bowl of the ear. Can use on most hearing losses up to severe. |
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| Cosmetically appealing; usually goes far enough in the canal that is not visible to others. It has a "fishing line" handle for insertion and removal. |
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| CROS -> contralateral writing of sound |
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| Put on "able" ear and it will cross over |
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| One ear is unaidable and the other ear has some degree of hearing |
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| Used when the outer ear cannot support a hearing aid (malformation) or when there is severe drainage which precludes the use of a hearing aid in the ear canal. |
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| The earmold couples the hearing aid to the user's ear via a tube |
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1. Face to face communication
2. Broadcast and other electronic media
3. Phone conversation
4. Sensitivity to learning and environmental signals |
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| Name the 4 necessities for communication when using an assistive listening device. |
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1. Noise
2. Distance
3. Reverberation |
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| Name the three main obstacles to hearing. |
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| You want the signal of what you're trying to hear to be greater than the ambient/background noise. |
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| A speech-to-text system; printed texxt of spoken English displayed in real time, which is a proven and appropriate means of acquiring info for some individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. |
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| Skilled in text-condensing strategies and in typing using an abbreviation system, which reduces keystrokes. |
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CART:
Communication Access Realtime Translation |
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| A method of speech-to-text translation that uses stenographic machines and computer software to translate the spoken word into the written word nearly as fast as people can talk. Text is displayed on a laptop computer, monitor, or large screen, depending on the situation. |
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