AH Children
Most likely to be the case manager of an IEP of a student with hearing loss.
SLP, DHH teacher and AudiologistWhat is an DHH teacher?
Overall, children this type of device have better language, speech and literacy.
hearing aid
cochlear implant
What is cochlear implant?
TRUE/FALSE Even people with normal hearing need to speechread in noisy settings.
What is TRUE?
Auditory training can be done in conjunction with speechreading training for children and adults and with this type of therapy for children.
What are being naive about peer interests and customs, having difficulty with empathizing, having limited understanding about feelings, feeling frustration or intimidation during social interactions?
An example of this facilitative language technique:
Parent: “You have a baby. You are feeding the baby. Oh, you love the baby”
What is parallel talk?
One component of parent centered language intervention.
What are child chooses topic, avoid critical language, encourage narratives, clear speech,, organize messages, speak positively and do not overcontrol conversation?
Two environmental changes to ensure optimal speechreading.
What are face-to-face, 3-5 ft, well-lit, reduced noise/reverb and few visual distractions?
1. You are playing with a kitchen set and clinician asks the child “what are you making for supper?”
2. You are playing with a kitchen set and clinician asks the child “What is your favorite color?”
The more difficult task
What is 2. You are playing with a kitchen set and clinician asks the child “What is your favorite color?”
Percentage of babies born with hearing loss have parents with normal hearing
What is 90-95%?
When hearing loss is identified with a young child, in addition to initiating services, this is also the audiologist's top priority.
What is counseling the parents?
What are restricted language system, no basis for mapping of sound to print and deficits in experience and world knowledge?
What are visibility of sounds, rapidity of speech, coarticulation and stress effects,visemes and homophenes and talker effects?
One tip for those with a CI when listening to music.
What are listen in a quiet environment, start with music with strong rhythms (i.e. country), use familiar songs, avoid complex (I.e. classical), watch videos of favorites, listen to favorites over and over and use sheet music to follow along?
Auditory training should be challenging but not frustrating. Therefore, increase the level of difficulty if responding correctly ____% of the time or more and decrease the level of difficulty if responding correctly to less than ___% of the training items
What is 80% and 50%?
What is ASL is its own language whereas MCE follows English?
What is different grammar?
What is ASL is not used while speaking English whereas MCE is?
What is both use signs and gestures? both manual forms of communication?
What is both use fingerspelling?
Two of the three reasons children with hearing loss have pragmatic language deficits.
What is less practice and possibly fewer conversational partners, lack of incidental listening and less formal instruction from parents?
The difference between lipreading and speechreading.
What is audio and visual cues for speechreading and visual only for lipreading?
The purpose and/or goal of auditory training
What is training to enhance someone's residual hearing with their device?
Two things an SLP can do when providing speech therapy to a child with hearing loss.
What are use visual cues, do not rely on auditory only, use tactile and kinesthetic cues, allow time for response, keep phrases short and reduce distance between you?
List one environmental modification that reduces noise and reverberation.
One format accommodation
One tip for a teacher in a noisy classroom
What are carpet or cork on floors, cushions for chairs, bookshelves, dividers?
What are study guides, notes prior, abbreviated assignments, paraphrasing, modified grading, etc.?
What are visual aids, handouts, gaining attention, handouts, facing them, preferential seating?
Two segmental errors and two language errors typical of those with hearing loss.
What are neutralize vowels, diphthongizations, substitutions, prolongations, nasalizations, omissions, voice voiceless confusion, distortions, error in consonant clusters, use more visual sounds?
What are any of the following?:
May overuse nouns and verbs and underuse adverbs, prepositions or pronouns; Simple subject-verb-object; Fewer words in sentences; Simple sentences; Incorrect order; restricted vocab, difficulty with idioms; don't use possessive or plural /s/; more concrete words
The means to show evidence that speechreading training is working.
What is patient report?
What is awareness, discrimination, identification and comprehension?
Three rules of speechreading.
What are two of the following?
Put yourself in the best location; know the topic of conversation; pay attention to context cues; keep a positive attitude; watch the talker’s face/lips; provide info to talker about how to communicate with you; ask them to remove their hand over their mouth or to face you; ensure that the room is well-lit and have proper position in the room; try to minimize background noise