Types of Hearing Loss
This type of hearing loss has normal bone conduction.
What is: Conductive hearing loss
This is a federally mandated plan for the education of preschool children.
What is: An individualized family service plan (IFSP)
During this adult stage of life, hearing loss may contribute to loneliness, as deterioration in health, loss of friends and family and life reflection occur.
What is: Late Adulthood stage
This is the symbol for recording right ear thresholds on the audiogram
What is: a circle
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Who is: Kim Kardashian
A middle ear infection may cause this type of hearing loss.
What is: A conductive hearing loss
This communication mode is a manual system that is expressed by the hands.
What is: ASL (American Sign Language)
This word is derived from the Latin word, tinnire, shich means, "to ring or tinkle". It is a word to describe a sound perceived as ringing, buzzing or any other internal sound.
What is: tinnitus
A patient who has difficulty hearing birds chirping will have this pattern of hearing loss
What is: a high frequency hearing loss
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Who is: Taylor Swift
This type of hearing loss may occur with excessive noise exposure.
What is: Sensori-neural hearing loss
This is a written statement developed for children (school-age) who have a disability. It includes specific goals and objectives and identifies means for assessing their attainment.
What is: An Individualized Education Program (IEP)
During this phase of the patient journey, patients may consult with their family physician, talk to family and friends, search the web and read articles about hearing, hearing loss and hearing aids.
What is: The Movement phase
This degree of loss will classify an individual as "Deaf"
What is: Profound hearing loss
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Who is: President Joe Biden
If Mr. Wax has age related hearing loss and gets an ear infection, what type of loss may he have?
What is: A mixed hearing loss
This type of classroom places children who have hearing loss in classrooms with children who have normal hearing.
What is: Inclusion class
This approach describes the type of care that respects and responds to a patient's preferences and needs and ensures that clinical decisions are guided by the patient's values.
What is: A Patient-Centered Approach
This graph is commonly used to explain how hearing loss impacts communication
What is: The speech banana
This celebrity is an American professional basketball player for the LA Lakers. Nicknamed, "King James", he is widely recognized as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
Who is: LeBron James
This type of hearing loss is most responsible for word recognition (clarity) issues
What is: Sensori-neural hearing loss
It may be recommended that a child with a unilateral hearing loss where this device in the classroom to help control the signal to noise ratio.
What is: An FM unit
This is part of the treatment plan which describes the overall objective the therapy is trying to achieve.
What is: A long term goal
This term is used to describe at least a 15 dB difference between the air conduction and bone conduction thresholds on an audiogram.
What is: air-bone gap
This celebrity grew up in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and moved to NY to attend Hofstra University. She is an animal lover and once had 4 cats; Oliver, Jasmine, Cocoa and Simba.
Who is: Dr. Senzer!