Cochlear Implants
Name 3 parts of a cochlear implant.
What is a Microphone, processor, battery, ear hook, magnet, coil
What type of hearing loss do you have - conductive or sensorineural?
What is a sensorineural hearing loss.
Name the 3 parts of the ear.
What is outer ear, middle ear and inner ear.
Name 3 parts of a hearing aid.
What is the microphone, ear hook, tubing, ear mold, processor, battery door.
What would you do if you could not hear what your friends were saying during lunch?
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How is a cochlear implant different from a hearing aid?
A hearing aid makes sound louder. A cochlear implant directly stimulates the auditory nerve.
What degree of hearing loss do you have (the degree may be different for each ear) - mild, moderate, severe or profound?
What is a severe to profound hearing loss.
What part of the ear are the 3 smallest bones located in - the outer ear, the inner ear or the middle ear?
What is the middle ear.
How do hearing aids work?
What is they make sound louder.
What would you do if your teacher was playing a movie but you can not hear or understand what is being said?
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Why did you need a cochlear implant?
What is hearing aids were not strong enough for my one ear.
What is the name of the doctor who checks your hearing?
What is an audiologist.
What part of the ear is the cochlea located - the outer ear, the inner ear or the middle ear?
What is the inner ear.
What type of hearing aids do you have?
What is behind the ear hearing aids.
Where do you like to sit in the classroom and why?
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How does a cochlear implant get implanted?
In order to implant a cochlear implant, you need to be sedated. A surgeon puts an internal piece (electrode array and magnet) through the middle ear and into the inner ear to stimulate the auditory nerve directly. An external piece attaches to the internal piece through a magnet. The external processor processes the sound.
What is the name of the form the audiologist uses to chart your hearing loss?
What is an audiogram.
What part of the ear is like a piano - the eardrum, the cochlea or the ear canal?
What is the cochlea.
What company makes your hearing aid and what model is it?
What is Phonak Sky B70 hearing aids.
What is an IEP and what does IEP stand for?
What is an individual educational plan.
What cochlear implant do you have?
What is a Cochlear Americas N7
How would you describe your hearing loss to others?
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What part of our body interprets the sounds we hear - the cochlea, the auditory nerve or the brain?
What is the brain.
What would you do if moisture got trapped in your tubbing and your hearing aid would not work?
What is remove the tubbing from the ear hook, use an air blower to push the moisture out OR put your hearing aid in a dry aid kit.
What is a DM system and how does it work?
What is a digital modulator system. It helps kids with hearing aids and cochlear implants to hear better in noisy environments.