Parts of Hearing Assistive Technology
An electric device that you can wear in your ear or behind your ear.
What is a hearing aid?
This is what you do when someone speaks too quickly and expects you to understand what they have told you.
What is repeat yourself please?
The outermost part of the ear (where you pierce and wear an earring).
What is the pinna?
This is what you do first before speaking to someone with hearing loss to get their attention
What is call their name?
A device that uses a transmitter to send sound signals to a receiver and stimulator implanted within the skull, which stimulates the auditory nerve with electrodes that have been threaded into the cochlea.
What is a cochlear implant?
This is what you can do if you have trouble hearing the announcements over the school speakers.
What is ask for someone to repeat them?
What is ask your teacher or a student to write them on the board?
The skin-like membrane that vibrates in the ear.
What is an ear drum?
This is what you do when someone with hearing loss doesn't understand you.
What is repeat or rephrase?
A device that transmits the teacher's voice directly to hearing aids, assisting someone with hearing loss to hear the speaker directly into their hearing aids.
What is a Direct Microphone (Roger Touchscreen, FM).
These are text versions of the audio content of a video. This includes spoken words, information about who is speaking, and any sounds relevant to understanding context and meaning.
What are closed captions?
The three tiniest bones in our bodies.
What are the ossicles?
(What is Malleus, Incus, Stapes?)
This is what you can wear to help someone with hearing loss hear you in a noisy environment.
What is a direct microphone (FM)?
A piece of carefully molded material that sits in your ear to assist with signal to noise ratio.
What is an ear mold?
What you do when the room or environment is full of loud sounds and you can't hear your friends talking.
What is move to another space?
The fluid-filled chamber in the ear shaped like a shell
What is the cochlea?
This is what you can do if the class next door is being too noisy or there is construction noise outside.
What is close the classroom door and windows?
What is used to give power to the hearing aid?
What is a battery?
What do you do if...
You are having trouble hearing because you are in a large noisy classroom and the teacher is speaking and walking around the room
What is sit closer to the front/speaker and tell them to wear the microphone?
A bundle of nerve fibres that carries hearing information between the cochlea and the brain.
What is the auditory nerve?
What you can do if someone makes a negative comment about someone with hearing loss or anyone else in the classroom?
What is ______________
-Do what is right and let the person know they hurt someone's feelings.
-support your friend you got hurt and ask if they are ok
-Tell your teachers
-Talk to the person and find ways to learn and grow.