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Deafness Basics
Communication Options
Testing for Deafness
Anatomy
Causes
100
Hearing loss in one ear
What is unilateral?
100

The most commonly used sign language

What is American Sign Language (ASL) ?
100
The type of doctor who analyzes complications within the ear
What is an Audiologist? 
100
Part of the ear that includes the auricle, or pinna, and the ear canal
What is the outer ear?


100
Meningitis and Acute Otitis Media are all types of these causes
What are Postnatal Causes?
200

Hearing loss in both ears

What is bilateral?
200

Using the remaining hearing that the student still has in combination with the amplification of sound

What is Oral/Aural communication?
200
The machine that is used to test the hearing of a person
What is an audiometer?


200
The three bones located inside of the middle area of the ear
What is the malleus, incus and the stapes?
200
Viruses, bacteria, lack of oxygen, rubella, and infections are all types of these causes
What are Prenatal Causes?
300
Hearing that is lost at birth
What is Congenital Deafness?
300

Small, electronic device that is implanted into a person’s cochlea in order to stimulate it to cause hearing

What is a cochlear implant?
300
EOAE stands for 
What is the Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions test?
300
Where the Eustachian tube is located
What is the Middle Ear?
300
Brain Trauma, excessive loud noise, and headphone volume are all types of these causes
What are postlingual causes?
400
A hearing loss of 20 to 70 decibels 
What is hard of hearing?


400

Enhances the student’s listening skills and heavily focuses on using speech in order to communicate

What is auditory training?
400
ABR stands for 
What is the Auditory Brainstem Response test?
400
Where the cochlea is located in the ear
What is the Inner ear?


500

Hearing impairment severe enough that the student is impaired in processing linguistic information through hearing and their educational performance is adversely affected

What is Deafness?
500

A combination of multiple sources of information including both sign language and spoken language

What is Total or Simultaneous communication?

500
Doctor who is studies all diseases of a person's ear
What is an otologist?
500
The part of the ear where vibrations are passed through an continued to the brain to be interpreted.  This is either damaged or not present in a Deaf person's ear
What are the cochleas? 
500
The four causes of deafness
What is genetic, prenatal, postnatal, and postlingual?