History
She performed some of the critical research that backs up early intervention in hearing loss and the EHDI goals
Who is Christine Yoshigana-Itano.
These are the two federal laws that impact the education of children with hearing loss
What are the American's with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Education Act (IDEA)
H.A.T.S
What are hearing assistive technology systems?
These are the three types of implantable hearing devices
What are Bone Conduction, Cochlear Implants, and Implantable Hearing aids.
This form of testing involves conditioning a patient (typically an infant) to turn their head towards sounds. The head turn is reinforced with something interesting (like a dancing light-up toy). Once a repeatable response is conditioned ,the head turn can bue used to obtain heairng thresholds.
What is visual reinforceent audiometry (VRA)
These are the three systems that the brain requires to maintain an upright stance
What are Vision, Proprioception ("touch"), and the vestibular system.
This was the famous scientist who first electrically stimulated his ears using wires attached to a battery.
Who was Volta? (Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta)
The time it takes echos to reach the ear.
This technology uses a loudspeaker to broadcast an amplified signal to the entire classroom. It provides benefit for all students in the classroom.
What is a sounfield system?
This term describes the spatial arrangement of where sounds of different frequency are are collected by the ear and then processed in the brain. The cochlea is organized so that it respons to high-frequency sounds at the base and low-frequency sounds at the apex.
What is tonotopic organization.
In this testing methodology involves conditioning a patient to take or make a fun action in response to a sound.
What is conditioned play audiometry (CPA)
These are the time-base goals of the EHDI Program.
What are Screening by 1 month, Diagnostic testing by 3 months ,and intervention by six-months
She is the mother of Pediatric Audiology
Who was Marion Downs
This legislation covers special education and requires and IEP.
What is IDEA
This is the amount of dB SPL (i.e. volume) that a hearing aids to an incoming signal.
This is s surgically implanted medical device that bypasses the damaged part of the inner ear to electrically stimulate the remaining neural fibers of the auditory nerve
What is a cochlear implant?
This organization supports families with children who have been diagnosed with hearing loss. They provide 2 guide programs which includes individuals who have grown up deaf and hard of hearing as well as parents who have raised (or are rasing) children with hearing loss. They take an an unbaised approach to communication methodology.
What is Michigan Hands and Voices (or Guide by your Side)
This is a common screening tool used to assess self-perceived handicap in adults.
This famous neurologist performed the first cochlear implant surgery in the 1960's
Who was William House? or Who was Dr. House?
This is an alteration in classroom content delivery that "level the playing field" in regards to the student's ability to access the material. This includes assistive devices, preferential seating or CART
What are classroom accommodations?
This devices employs a hearing aid worn on the better hearing ear and an microphone/transmitter worn on the deaf ear. It is used to treat single sided deafness
What is a CROS hearing aid (Contralateral Routing of Signal)
This is a signal that is applied/transmitted across the depth of the intact skin.
What is transcutaneous?
This is Michigan's early intervention program (from birth to age 3). They provide support in various developmental domains including: physical, cognitive, communicaiton, socal-emotional, and self help.
What is Early On?
The key members of a vestibular balance team.
Who Audiologists, Physicians, Physical Therapists, and a key triage person/
This chair was equipped with a large receiving apparatus concealed beneath the seat. Its hollow arms were elaborately carved to represent the open mouths of grotesque lions and were arranged to act as receivers through which sound was conveyed via a single tube hidden in the back of the chair
What was the King Goa Chair?
These are the the 4 primary rehabilitative/educational modes of communication in the education of children with hearing loss.
What are Sign/ASL, Total Communication, Oral Communication, and Auditory Verbal communication.
This test allows us to adjust a hearing aid's response to the individual resonances that occur in each individual's ear. Gan, Output and MPO can be adjusted in real time.
What is speech mapping?
These are the two primary methods of determining "lack of benefit" from conventional hearing aids from children (9-24 months) undergoing consideration for cochlear implant.
What are a Speech language evaluation and parent questionnaires?
This disorder results from incomplete development of the structure of the inner ear. It can range from mild dismorphic freatures of the vestibular canals to a common cavity (a large single between the hearing and balance part of the inner ear).
What is a mondini malformaiton?
What are the three most common frequencies to to screen hearing in children 3-5 years old.
What are 1000 Hz, 2000 Hz, and 4000 Hz.
This was the decade that the first fully digital hearing aids appeared.
What was the 1980's
These are alteration in content delivery and assessment that are intended to help a student adapt to learning. They "change the playing field" and include examples such as reduced content, oral test provision, additional test time.
What are classroom modifications?
These are the five components of a hearing aid
What are the microphone, battery, receiver, microchip, and amplifier.
Of the thee options for treating single sided deafness, it is the one that requires the patient to truly have normal hearing in the better hearing ear.
What is a bone conduction device?
The primary goal in pediatric hearing aid fittings or cochlear implant fittings.
What is to provide consistent access to sound to facilitate speech and language devlopment?
This reflex takes input from the vestibular system to move the eyes when the head is in motion. It is what allows us to maintain steady vision when we are in motion.
What is the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (VOR)?