Vocabulary
Technology that assists people to hear more sounds.
What is a hearing aid, cochlear implant, bone conductor or other kind of hearing assistive technology.
An electric device that you can wear in your ear or behind your ear.
What is a hearing aid?
This is what you do when someone speaks too quickly and expects you to understand what they have told you.
What is repeat yourself please?
The outermost part of the ear (where you pierce and wear an earring).
What is the pinna?
The part of the face that are the entry to the oral cavity.
What are lips?
The challenged ability to produce speech sounds ranging from mild to severe.
What is a barrier to speaking?
A device that uses a transmitter to send sound signals to a receiver and stimulator implanted within the skull, which stimulates the auditory nerve with electrodes that have been threaded into the cochlea.
What is a cochlear implant?
This is what you ask your principal for if the announcements come through a poorly functioning speaker.
What is ask for the transcript ahead of time?
The large hollow of the ear where the ear mold sits which leads to the auditory canal.
What is a concha?
The part of the oral organ of the mouth that mammals use for tasting, swallowing, and articulating sounds in words.
What is the tongue?
Words that a person can say or sign.
What is expressive vocabulary?
A device that transmits sound vibrations through the bone. (A device that transmits sound energy through vibration of the skull, bypassing the eardrum and the middle ear hearing bones.)
What is a bone conduction hearing aid?
What are closed captions?
The three tiniest bones in our bodies that comprise the middle ear.
What are the ossicles?
A set of hard, bony enamel-coated structures used for biting, chewing and forming words.
What are teeth?
The concepts/ideas that words mean that can be understood by someone.
What is receptive vocabulary?
A piece of carefully molded material that sits in your ear to assist with signal to noise ratio.
What is an ear mold?
What you do when the room or environment is full of loud sounds.
What is move to another space?
The spiral cavity of the inner ear which produces nerve impulses in response to sound vibrations.
What is the cochlea?
A look on someone's face that shows/conveys an emotion.
What is expression?
If a person knows about something, realizes something, or conscious of something.
What is awareness?
A shell of an ear mold with a small hole cut out in the concha portion.
What is a skeleton ear mold?
What you do when you are in a big class where someone will be speaking to you and writing on a chalk/white board.
What is sit closer to the front/speaker and tell them to wear the microphone?
A bundle of nerve fibres that carries hearing information between the cochlea and the brain.
What is the auditory nerve?
The basic movement of a part of the face to show what someone is thinking is feeling.
What is a facial cue?