The three small bones, known as ossicles, are located in which part of the ear.
What is the middle ear?
100
What "AAC" stands for.
Alternative and Augmentative Communication
100
Predominant language utilized by the Deaf Community in the United States.
What is American Sign Language.
100
This anatomical structure channels the sounds from the outside of the ear.
What is the pinna?
100
The part of the ear in which the cochlear is located.
What is the inner ear?
200
The formal term for the ear drum.
What is tympanic membrane.
200
Method of AAC used when a person communicates with "minimal materials."
What is low-tech.
200
External part of the cochlear implant.
What is/are microphone, transmitter, or speech processor.
200
These structures play crucial roles in amplifying sound in the middle ear.
What are the tympanic membrane and the ossicles?
200
The two types of hair cells found in the cochlea.
What are outer and inner hair cells?
300
Components of the outer ear.
What are the pinna and the ear canal?
300
The degenerative disorder that Stephen Hawking (an AAC user) suffers from
What is Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)?
300
Why many parents choose not to have a child wait until she or he is old enough to decide if he or she would like a cochlear implant.
What is a limited window for ideal language acquisition.
300
Unit of measurement of intensity.
What are decibels?
300
The shape of the cochlea.
What is a circular / snail shape?
400
This structure drains fluid from your middle ears to the back of your pharynx.
What are the eustachian tubes?
400
Method of AAC used with no tools or materials.
What is no-tech?
400
Times or activities during which a person cannot wear his cochlear implant.
What is swimming, or while in water?
400
Unit of measurement of frequency.
What are Hertz?
400
The two membranes found in the cochlear.
What is the Tectorial membrane and the Basilar membrane.
500
"Ear infections" are disorders that affect this part of the ear.
What is the middle ear?
500
A low-tech AAC method which utilizes a clear board. For this communication, the therapist watches a patient's eye gaze to determine letter or symbol the patient is choosing.
What is dynamic eye gaze?
500
The name of the documentary we watched last week.
What is Sound and Fury?
500
Damage to these leads to decreased hearing sensitivity and hearing loss.
What are hair cells?
500
Section of the Basilar membrane that responds best to high frequency sounds.