Types of Hearing Loss
This type of hearing loss is the most common type of hearing loss and occurs when the inner ear or nerve is damaged.
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
This common challenge occurs when individuals with hearing loss miss key information during conversations. Strategies to address it include reducing background noise, using visual cues, and employing assistive listening devices.
What is a communication breakdown
True or False: Hearing aids are used to fix hearing loss, so that the wearer’s hearing will return to normal.
False. While hearing aids can help amplify sounds, they may not provide the same listening experience as prior to hearing loss.
How many "stations" does sound pass through before reaching the brain?
What do we call the chart which shows the type and degree of a person's hearing loss?
What is the audiogram
These speech sounds are generally louder and low pitched. They carry most of the volume of speech.
What are vowels?
True or false: hearing loss is always caused by exposure to loud noise, which damages hair cells in the cochlea.
False! There are many possible causes of hearing loss, including ototoxic medications or genetic factors.
This membrane vibrates in response to sound waves, sending the vibration to the middle ear.
What is the ear drum / tympanic membrane.
A person has chronic ear infections, causing fluid to pool behind the eardrum. This makes it difficult for sound to pass through to the inner ear. What kind of hearing loss would result?
Conductive
These speech sounds are high pitched and softer and help us to distinguish words from each other.
What are consonants?
True or False: Male voices have a low frequency range while female voices can be found in the higher frequencies
What is true?
A fluid filled organ that is snail shaped.
In this organ, hair cells are displaced, and the auditory nerve sends the signal to the brain.
What is the cochlea?
What type of hearing loss is typically associated with aging?
Sensorineural
This type of technology amplifies sound and can be used to enhance communication for those with hearing loss, including devices like hearing aids and cochlear implants.
What is assistive listening technology
True or false: Hearing aids are effective when worn on occasion, only when you really need them.
False. This is a common misconception about hearing aids, where individuals believe they can wear them only on occasion when needed, rather than consistently for optimal benefit.
This organ filters noise to focus on the signal we are listening for and integrates sounds to understand the environment around us.
What is the brain.
Occurs when there is a combination of sensorineural and conductive hearing loss.
What is mixed hearing loss?
True or False: Listening to sounds 85 dB or above for long periods of time can cause permanent damage to your hearing
What is true?
True or False: Hearing protection can still preserve quality of sound while reducing harmful sound intensity.
What is true.
This comes complete with a self-cleaning system, protects the rest of the ear, and is tuned to the pitches of speech.
What is the ear canal?