Adult Aural Rehabilitation
This orientation to rehabilitation focuses on providing care that respects a patient's values and preferences, rather than just the biomedical diagnosis.
What is a Patient-Centered Orientation?
This common hearing test for children ages 2.5 to 5 involves training the child to perform a task, like dropping a block in a bucket, when they hear a sound.
What is Conditioned Play Audiometry?
Members of the Deaf community in the United States share this common language.
What is American Sign Language (ASL)?
This self-assessment tool asks patients to identify specific areas of improvement they hope to see with their hearing aids.
What is the COSI (Client Oriented Scale of Improvement)?
This is the medical term for age-related hearing loss.
What is Presbycusis?
This term describes the perception of sound in the head, such as ringing or buzzing, without an external cause.
What is Tinnitus?
While ABR measures neural activity, this test measures inaudible sounds that are by-products of the mechanical actions of the outer hair cells in the cochlea.
What are Otoacoustic Emissions (OAEs)?
This educational philosophy combines the use of sign language and speech simultaneously.
What is Total Communication?
A simple, informal method to check if a hearing aid is functioning using a stethoscope-like tool.
What is a Listening Check?
This sensation of spinning or dizziness is often associated with vestibular issues.
What is Vertigo?
According to Dr. Frank Lin (2011), adults with severe hearing loss were this many times more likely to develop dementia than those with normal hearing.
What is 5 times?
The percentage of children with severe to profound hearing loss who are born to parents with normal hearing.
What is 90% to 95%?
This system uses phonemically based hand gestures to supplement speechreading and distinguish between sounds that look the same on the lips.
What is Cued Speech?
In the hierarchy of auditory skills, this is the highest level, coming after Awareness, Discrimination, and Identification.
What is Comprehension?
This U.S. federal law ensures free, appropriate public education (FAPE) and related services for children with disabilities, covering early intervention to high school, providing rights for parents, and mandating Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). It guarantees support for students (ages 3-21) to learn alongside peers in the least restrictive environment, with services tailored via IEPs based on specific needs and one of 13 disability categories.
What is IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)?
In the "Circular-Pathways Model of Grieving," these are the two main pathways a patient might navigate.
What are the Outward-Focused Pathway and the Inward-Focused Pathway?
Research on classroom acoustics found that while reverberation times often met guidelines, this environmental factor frequently exceeded recommended levels.
What are Background Noise Levels?
The primary difference between Auditory-Oral and Auditory-Verbal approaches is that Auditory-Oral allows for this, while Auditory-Verbal encourages reliance on listening only.
What is Lipreading (or visual cues)?
This is the amount of time it takes for a sound to decay by 60 dB in a room.
What is Reverberation Time?
This legal document identifies goals and objectives for children ages 3-21 with disabilities in the school system.
What is an IEP (Individualized Education Plan)?
This type of counseling involves helping a patient deal with the emotional impact of hearing loss, often distinguishing it from "informational counseling."
What is Personal Adjustment Counseling?
This six-sound test is a quick behavioral check to ensure a child (typically using their hearing devices) detects vowels and consonants across the frequency range (including sounds like /a/, /u/, /i/, /s/, /sh/, /m/).
What is the Ling 6 Sound Test?
In speechreading, this term refers to a group of speech sounds that look identical on the lips, such as /p/, /b/, and /m/.
What are Visemes?
This term refers to the difference in intensity between the signal (what you want to hear) and the noise (background sound), often expressed in decibels.
What is the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)?
This strategy involves a listener asking a speaker to repeat or rephrase a message when a communication breakdown occurs.
What is a Repair Strategy?