This is a graph that shows a hearing loss.
What is an audiogram?
This is often a permanent hearing loss.
Sensorineural.
This helps you hear the teacher better by amplifying sound.
What is the FM system?
This term means to sit where you can hear the best.
What is front row seating?
What you do if the teacher doesn't wear the FM close enough to his/her mouth?
What is ask her to move it up four fingers from him/her mouth?
The "x" on an audiogram stands for this.
What is the left ear?
This is a problem affecting the outer or middle ear parts such as the eardrum or ear canal.
What is conductive?
This has the microphone and the teacher wears.
What is the transmitter?
This is what you do if you did not hear what the teacher said.
What is raise your hand and ask him or her to repeat it.
This is what you do if the teacher sits you at the back of the class.
Sit up front so you can hear better?
This means "one sided".
What is unilateral?
This is the piece the student wears to pick up the sound from the microphone.
What is the receiver?
These are words that appear at the bottom of movies to show what is being said on the screen.
What are closed captions?
This is what you do if you need to change your hearing aid batteries in the middle of class.
What is to raise your hand and ask to replace your batteries (or just get up and replace them).
This measures the loudness of sound.
What is decibels?
This means "two sided".
What is bilateral?
You need to do this at the end of the day everyday.
What is charge the transmitter and/or receiver?
If the teacher is giving notes and they are not written on the board, you are allowed to ask for this.
What is a written copy of the notes or a note taker?
This is what you do if you run out of hearing aid batteries.
Ask the teacher to email your Hearing teacher.
This shows high pitch or low pitch.
What is frequency?
This can be labeled as mild, moderate, severe, or profound.
What is degree of hearing loss?
You need to do this everyday at the beginning of the day.
What is take the FM off the charger, and give it to the teacher?
If you are taking a test, you are allowed to use this.
What is your FM system?
If you have a cold and cannot hear well even with your hearing aids on, you would do this.
Tell the teacher you are not hearing well today.