Vocab
The absence of sight.
What is Blindness?
Cerumen
What is Earwax?
An infection of the middle ear.
What is Otitis Media?
The clouding of the lens.
What are Cataracts?
Who is at risk for low vision?
What is a person with Diabetic Retinopathy?
The total or partial loss of the ability to use or understand language
What is Aphasia?
Vertigo
What is Dizziness?
Not being able to hear the range of sounds associated with normal hearing.
What is Hearing Loss?
Fluid builds up in the eye causing pressure on the optic nerve.
What is Glaucoma?
Braille involves...
What are raised dots arranged for letters of the alphabet?
Hearing loss in which it is impossible for the person to understand speech through hearing alone.
What is Deafness?
Vision that cannot be corrected with eyeglasses, contact lenses, drugs, or surgery.
What is Low vision?
To not act, do or perform. The person cannot use speech muscles to make words for understandable speech.
What is Apraxia of Speech?
Blurs central vision.
What is Age-Related Macular Degeneration?
Dangers for blind or visually impaired people.
What are doors that are fully open?
Difficulty expressing or sending out thoughts through speech or writing.
What is Expressive aphasia?
Difficulty understanding language.
What is Receptive aphasia or Wernicke's aphasia?
Involves the inner ear, and usually only affects 1 ear.
Hint: Symptoms include: vertigo, tinnitus, hearing loss, and a feeling of fullness or pressure in the ear.
Blood vessels in the retina are damaged. A complication of diabetes, and it is the leading cause of blindness among working adults.
What is Diabetic Retinopathy?
When caring for an ocular prosthesis, you...
What is washing the eye with mild soap and warm water?
Difficulty expressing or sending out thoughts and difficulty understanding language.
What is Global aphasia or Mixed aphasia?
A touch reading and writing system that uses raised dots for eat letter of the alphabet.
What is Braille?
Difficult or poor speech. Nerve damage affects the mouth and face muscles.
What is Dysarthria?
Hearing loss in which it is impossible for the person to understand speech through hearing alone.
What is Deafness?
A person is blind. The meal-time setting should...
What is being the same for every meal?