Hearing Loss Terms
Hearing Loss Terms
Hearing Loss Terms
Hearing Loss Terms
Communication Methods
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This is a form of hearing loss where something is wrong with the outer or middle ear.
Conductive Hearing Loss
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Hearing loss that happens quickly.
Sudden Hearing Loss
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The remaining natural hearing a person has left. The ability to hear some sounds even if a hearing loss exists.
Residual Hearing
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You would identify yourself this way when you have enough usable hearing available that an auditory device such as a hearing aid provides you access to speech.
Hard of Hearing
100
This method uses any form of communication such as lipreading, speaking, and signing to learn language.
Total Communication
200
With this type of hearing loss there is something wrong with the outer or middle ear and the inner ear.
Mixed Hearing Loss
200
If you have little to no functional hearing you are considered this.
deaf
200
This is having a hearing loss in both ears.
Bilateral Hearing Loss
200
Hearing loss that shows a difference in each ear on a hearing chart.
Asymmetrical Hearing Loss
200
This is the abbreviation used for American Sign Language.
ASL
300
A form of Hearing Loss where something is wrong with the Inner Ear. Also known as a Nerve Loss.
Sensorineural Hearing Loss
300
Having hearing loss in only one ear with normal hearing in the other.
Unilateral Hearing Loss
300
Hearing loss that continues to worsen over time.
Progressive Hearing Loss
300
Hearing loss that appears after a person learned how to talk.
Post-Lingual Hearing Loss
300
What is another name for lipreading?
Speechreading
400
Hearing loss that stays pretty much the same over time.
Stable Hearing Loss
400
Hearing loss that continually changes and may get better or worse at different times.
Fluctuating Hearing Loss
400
ANSD is the abbreviated version of Auditory Neuropathy. What does each letter stand for?
Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder
400
Hearing loss that occurs before or right at birth.
Congenital Hearing Loss
400
With this method you communicate by using speech and lipreading.
Auditory Oral Communication
500
The least common type of Hearing Loss. The inner ear successfully detects sound but has a problem sending the sound from the ear to the brain.
Auditory Neuropathy
500
Hearing loss that occurs after birth.
Acquired or Delayed Onset Hearing Loss
500
Hearing loss that occurs before a person learned how to talk.
Pre-Lingual Hearing Loss
500
Hearing loss that looks similar in both ears on a hearing chart.
Symmetrical Hearing Loss
500
This method uses sign language as the primary way to communicate.
Manual Communication