Audiogram
This letter "X" is used to mark the threshold for this specific ear during air conduction testing.
What is left?
Moving from left to right across this horizontal axis of an audiogram represents an increase in this property of sound, measured in Hertz.
What is a frequency?
Fluid in the middle ear or an infection usually causes this type of hearing loss, which is often temporary.
What is conductive hearing loss?
This type of inflammation at age 1 lead to permanent sensorineural hearing loss.
What is meningitis?
This person facilitates communication between Deaf and hearing people by converting spoken English into sign language and vice versa.
What is an ASL interpreter?
This one-letter abbreviation indicates that the thresholds shown were obtained while a person can hear while wearing his or her hearing amplification.
What is aided threshold? (letter A)
This term is used to describe the area where most sounds of average conversational speech occur on audiograms.
What is a speech banana?
Defined as "one-sided" hearing loss that exists in only one ear.
What is unilateral hearing loss?
ASL teacher's childhood sign language communication fall on this continuum to visually represent English vocabulary and grammar rather than the visual-spatial structure.
What is Signed Exact English (SEE)?
Often found in residential schools or dedicated self-contained classrooms, provide direct instruction to students with hearing loss using methods like sign language and auditory training.
Who is a teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing?
What is the symbol AND color for unmasked air conduction for the right ear?
What is O and Red?
This represents the intensity of sound on the vertical axis of an audiogram.
What are decibels (dB)?
This most common type of permanent hearing loss results from damage to the tiny hair cells in the cochlea.
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
This type of educational setting allows a deaf invidual to attend classes with hearing peers rather than a specialized residential school or regional self-contained classroom.
What is mainstream education (inclusion)?
To serve students in mainstream settings, teachers often travel between multiple schools including carrying hearing equipment in their own vehicles.
What is itinerant teacher?
These two bracket symbols, [ and ], are used to represent this type of hearing test, which measures sound traveling directly to the cochlea.
What is masked bone conduction?
Individual for severe-to-profound hearing loss, this type of hearing aids are the powerful, often larger devices produced by Phonak, Siemens, or Oticon typically used.
What is behind-the-ear (BTE)?
This is the term for a combined conductive and sensorineural hearing loss in the same ear.
What is Mixed Hearing loss?
Moving onto college, this phrase describes the personal growth of choosing a new path as a 'clean slate' rather than relying on the social crutch of high school friends.
What is a fresh start?
To help deaf or hard-of-hearing students improve their listening and communication skills to speak.
What is a Speech-Language Pathologist?
These two letters, O and X, represent the results of this type of testing.
What is air conduction?
This refers to the average of thresholds at 500, 1000, and 2000 Hz.
What is Pure Tone Average (PTA)?
This degree of hearing loss is exceeding 90 dB, meaning only very loud sounds are detected.
What is profound hearing loss?
After earning BS at undergrad, went to this university for MEd, making both his alma maters.
Where is University of Minnesota?
Part of multidisciplinary team and is responsible for managing classroom FM systems, facilitating IEP listening goals, and ensuring students with hearing loss have full access in the school setting.
What is an Educational Audiologist?