The type of hearing loss that is caused by problems with the ear “conducting” the vibrations to the cochlea, i.e. the hearing loss occurs outside the cochlea.
What is conductive hearing loss?
100
Term meaning, "only one ear."
What is unilateral?
100
Technically, anything that helps you hear better. Typically with 3 main parts of a microphone, amplifier, and speaker
What is a hearing aid?
100
composed of the sounds of ooo, eee, ah, mmm, ssss, and shhh, these sounds span the range of frequencies occurring in speech.
What are the Ling 6 sounds?
100
The space between the eardrum and the inner ear that contains the ossicles, which conduct vibrations from the tympanic membrane to the cochlea.
What is the middle ear?
200
91 or more dB HL.
What is profound hearing loss?
200
Term for programming a cochlear implant.
What is mapping?
200
A device that can be surgically implanted into a person’s cochlea to stimulate it to cause hearing.
What is a cochlear implant?
200
services for adults that may include adjusting to your hearing loss, implementing hearing aid technologies, learning communication strategies, and promoting self advocacy.
What is aural rehabilitation?
200
Eighth cranial nerve that connects the inner ear to the brainstem and is responsible for hearing and balance
What is the auditory nerve?
300
Hearing loss resulting from damage to the cochlea and/or the auditory nerve and its connections in the brainstem.
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
300
Term for formatting a hearing aid for the specified user.
What is fitting?
300
Standing for "frequency modulation," this is a system that varies a radio signal’s frequency (instead of amplitude) to transmit useful information.
What is an FM system?
300
techniques taught by the therapist during speech and hearing therapy to help the client compensate for his/her hearing loss.
What are compensatory strategies?
300
A thin membrane that serves as a partition between the external ear and the middle ear and transmits the motion of sound waves to the chain of bones in the middle ear, typically referred to as the eardrum.
What is the tympanic membrane?
400
41 to 55 dB HL.
What is moderate hearing loss?
400
Medical term for earwax.
What is cerumen?
400
This is a tiny coil of wire that can supplement the input to a hearing aid and/or a cochlear implant.
What is a T-coil (Telecoil)?
400
when a message is impacted from the result of the hearing loss, causing the communication partner to not understand the message.
What is a communication breakdown?
400
cells in the cochlea that are moved by the vibrations of the cohlea and of the fluid in the cochlea caused by the sound waves
What are hair cells?
500
71 – 90 dB HL
What is a severe hearing loss?
500
A ringing in the ears.
What is tinnitus?
500
A captioned telephone.
What is CapTel?
500
the phenomenon whereby the client accepts his/her own challenges as well as strengths, allowing his/herself to ask for assistance and own the responsibility of creating his/her own goals for therapy.
What is self advocacy?
500
the spiral cavity of the inner ear that produces nerve impulses in response to sound vibrations.