A significant hearing loss that makes some special adaptations necessary
What is hard of hearing?
100
This results in abnormalities or complications of the outer or middle ear.
What is conductive hearing loss?
100
An electronic device that generates sounds at different levels of intensity and frequency
What is an audiometer?
100
An amplification device that makes sounds louder
What is a hearing aid?
100
The process of understanding a spoken message by observing the speaker's face
What is speechreading?
200
The main receptor organ for hearing.
What is the cochlea?
200
Hearing loss that is present in both ears.
What is bilateral hearing loss?
200
A passive assessment procedure in which the child's reactions to sounds are observed
What is behavior observation audiometry?
200
A device that bypasses damaged hair cells and stimulates the auditory nerve directly
What is a cochlear implant?
200
Teaching the child to learn to listen and to learn by listening instead of simply learning to hear
What is auditory learning?
300
The intensity or loudness is measured in these units.
What are decibels?
300
An acquired hearing loss that is caused by a bacterial or viral infection of the central nervous system.
What is meningitis?
300
A method of screening that places sensors on the scalp to measure electrical activity as the infant responds to auditory stimuli
What is auditory brain stem response?
300
A technology that increases access by deaf students to live presentations, such as public or classroom lectures
What is speech to text translation?
300
To clarify the sound-symbol relationship between spoken English and print
What is visual phonics?
400
Another name for the eardrum.
What is the tympanic membrane?
400
Genetic factors, maternal rubella, congenital cytomegalovirus, and prematurity.
What are congenital causes of hearing loss?
400
A technique used to teach the child to perform simple but distinct activities, such as picking up a toy, whenver she hears the signal, either pure tones or speech.
What is play audiometry?
400
A support system that is likely to tutor, assist general and special education teachers, keeping records, and supervising students with hearing loss
What is an interpreter?
400
Programs that advocate the use of a variety of forms of communication to teach English to students with hearing loss
What is total communication?
500
A hearing impairment that is so severe that the child is impaired in processing liguistic information through hearing, with or without amplification, and that adversely affects a child's educational performance.
What is deafness?
500
The combination of both conductive and sensorineural impairments is called.
What is mixed hearing loss?
500
A level of hearing loss where the hearing threshold level is between 41 to 55 dB
What is mild hearing loss?
500
Printed text that appears at the bottom of a television screen that provides access to televised news and entertainment for deaf people
What is television captioning?
500
The language of the Deaf culture in the United States and Canada