Sound Science
TBI
Hearing
Educational Approaches
Potpourri
100
a mass displaces air molecules that bump into each other
How is sound generated?
100
causes diffuse damage and coup contra coup damage.
What is a closed head injury?
100
The study of hearing.
What is Audiology?
100
No signing, spoken English
What is auditory-verbal approach to teaching?
100
use of language to interact with others.
What is pragmatics?
200
sound energy in the outer ear, middle ear and inner ear.
What are acoustic energy, mechanical energy and electrical energy?
200
damage to a specific area in an open head injury.
What is focal damage?
200
Learning the skill for the first time
What is Habilitation?
200
Grammar very different from spoken English Reading and writing of spoken English taught as second language
What is ASL?
200
the actual spoken words when communicating.
What is speech?
300
perceived as pitch and measured in hertz
What is frequency?
300
a scale ranging from 3-15 given in the emergency room.
What is the glasgow coma scale?
300
Pathology in inner ear or auditory nervous system
What is Sensorineural Hearing Loss?
300
Combination of ASL, Signed Exact English, and spoken English (reading and writing also)
What is Total Communication?
300
a system of symbols and rules used to communicate.
What is language?
400
located in the inner ear and houses the hair cells.
What is the cochlea?
400
Headache, confusion, lightheadedness, dizziness, blurred vision or tired eyes, ringing in the ears, bad taste in the mouth, fatigue or lethargy, a change in sleep patterns, behavioral or mood changes, and trouble with memory, concentration, attention, or thinking. Not permanent damage.
What are effects of mild brain injury?
400
technological treatment appropriate for only the profoundly deaf.
What is a cochlear implant?
400
Uses hand cues to reduce confusion in speechreading
What is American Cued Speech?
400
an impairment that adversely effects hearing, speech or language.
What is a communciation disorder?
500
where the acoustic to mechanical energy change takes place.
What is tympanic membrane?
500
includes treating right and left hemisphere deficits.
What is cognitive/communication therapy?
500
Hearing loss caused by chronic otitis media.
What is a conductive hearing loss?
500
Taught in Deaf residential schools
What is ASL?
500
an example would be that young children possess a relatively larger head supported by a smaller neck compared adults
What are structural differences that make children more susceptible to TBI?
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