Hearing Facts
Organ of Hearing
What is a cochlea?
Devices that amplify sounds
What are Hearing Aids?
Auditory skills develop as early as
(Turnbull et al., 2020)
18 months
Visual disorder
What is Etiology?
Learn through observation and without others knowingly providing instruction
(Turnbull et al., 2020)
What is Incidental Learning?
-Can be temporary or permanent
-Can often be able to be corrected
-Problem with the outer ear or middle ear
(Turnbull et al., 2020)
What is Conductive Hearing?
-Problem with the inner ear
-Most common type of hearing loss
-Sounds can be unclear and distorted
(Turnbull et al., 2020)
What is Sensorineural hearing?
Define Hearing Impairment (IDEA)
Hearing impairment means an impairment in hearing, whether permanent or fluctuating, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance but that is not included under the definition of deafness in this section
(IDEA, 2017)
Vision Impairments affects... learns
HOW a student learns
A TVI
a teacher certified in visual impairment
Names of hearing loss (1)present at birth and (2)after birth
(Turnbull et al., 2020)
1) Congenital Hearing Loss
2) Acquired Hearing Loss
The number of students who attend and are served under IDEA in public schools
(Turnbull et al., 2020)
What is 65k?
Impairment results from an advent (hereditary) or an event (trauma)
(Turnbull et al., 2020)
Adventitious Visual Impairment
Ratio of children who have a visual disorder that interferes with their learning
(Turnbull et al., 2020)
1-2 : 1000
Visual Impairment occurs
During embryo development, any time during development, immediately after birth, before visual memories, after trauma, or hereditary (Turnbull et al., 2020) can also be due to amblyopia (lazy eye) or strabismus (Gavin, 2018)
Things teachers should do themselves in the classroom
-Make sure students can see your face when speaking
-Avoid talking behind students or through the obstructive view
-No speaking in dim lights
-Use an FM system
-Provide a quiet area for testing/assessments, general work area
(Success for Kids with Hearing Loss, 2017) (Turnbull et al., 2020)
Ways to cancel noise in the classroom
-Throw Rugs
-Soft Wall Coverings
-Tennis Balls
-Acoustic Tiles
(Turnbull et al., 2020)
Short-term hearing loss during this time can affect speech and language development
(Turnbull et al., 2020)
Critical age of language development is between 0-3 years old
How to help students with Vision Impairments in a school
-Braille Cards: One category at a time (groupings) Ex. Fruits, Vegetables, or Placing braille cards on objects that match
-Keep walkways open, avoid tripping hazards, allow extra time for movement, etc.
-Having a notetaker, large textbooks, audiobooks
(Gavin, 2018) (Turnbull et al., 2020)
Name Expanded Core Curriculum
(200 Bonus: give an example)
Contemporary skills, Orientation and Mobility (O&M), Social, Independent Living, Recreation & Leisure, Career Education, Assistive Tech, Vision Efficiency Skills, Self-Determination
(Turnbull et al., 2020)
Conducts a Nondiscriminatory Evaluation Process: Determining the Presence of a Hearing Loss
(Turnbull et al., 2020)
Teacher of the deaf or General Education Teacher
The goal of Early Intervention
"To empower and educate parents on the importance of exposing students to as much language as possible, spoken or signed"
(Turnbull et al., 2020)
Name the three categories of visual impairments and a characteristic of each
-Low vision: may use optical aids, might be considered legally blind, may be able to read braille, print, or both
-Functional blind: may use supplemental combinations of tactile and auditory learning methods, may use braille
-Totally blind: generally uses braille, needs tactile and auditory means to learn, no visual sense
(Turnbull et al., 2020)
LMA or Learning Media Assessment
An evaluation that determines which learning medium a student is more efficient in and which medium they need more instruction in
(Turnbull et al., 2020)
A descriptive evaluation of how an individual uses their available vision to perform tasks
Functional Vision Assessment (FVA)