Definitions 1
Definitions 2
Measuring Hearing Ability
Anatomy of the Ear Video
Technology
100
Hearing loss of 90 decibels or more.
What is the definition of deaf?
100
When one is born already deaf.
What is congenitally deaf?
100
Various tones and frequencies are presented to determine a person’s hearing loss
What are pure tone audiometry tests?
100
The outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear
What are the three parts of the ear?
100
Display of text on a television screen.
What are captions?
200
A device worn in the ear used to help those that are hard of hearing.
What is a hearing aid?
200
Hearing loss ranging lower than 90 decibels.
What is the definition of hard of hearing?
200
Measures otoacoustic emissions (low intensity sounds produced by the cochlea)
What are screening tests?
200
This catches sound waves, kind of like a catcher's mitt
What is the pinna?
200
Computer programs that help hard of hearing students/individuals with speech and production of language
What is computer assisted instruction?
300
The most affected areas of development for a person with hearing loss
What are the comprehension of language and the production of language?
300
Instead of a disability, deafness is viewed as its own culture in this group
What is the deaf culture?
300
Tests a person's detection and understanding of speech instead of tones to determine hearing loss
What is speech audiometry?
300
This begins to vibrate when the sound waves reach it in the middle ear
What is the ear drum?
300
Telephones that have a video for sign language and/or a texting keypad
What are text telephones (TT)?
400
Surgical procedure that allows people who are deaf to hear some environmental sounds
What is cochlear implantation?
400
Deafness occurring before development of spoken language, usually at birth
What is prelingual deafness?
400
Game like format used to test hearing as a specialized test for young children
What is play audiometry?
400
A snail shaped organ inside the ear about the size of an aspirin
What is the cochlea?
400
Devices that allow a deaf person to communication through telephone
What are telephone adaptations?
500
Deafness occurring after development of speech and language
What is postlingual deafness?
500
Born with normal hearing but acquires deafness through illness or accident
What is adventitiously deaf?
500
Method of measuring the middle ear’s response to pressure and sound
What is tympanometry?
500
Sound heard in the right ear are processed in this hemisphere of the brain
What is the left hemisphere?
500
Service that uses an interpreter to speak the signed language from the deaf individual and signs the response back
What is a video relay service (VRS)?
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