Audiogram
This is a graph that shows a hearing loss.
What is an audiogram?
This is often a permanent hearing loss.
Sensorineural.
A device that helps you hear the teacher better by sending their voice directly to your hearing aid/s. It negates distance and background noise.
What a wireless communication device (WDC)?
This term means to sit where you can hear the best.
What is front row seating?
What should you do if the teacher doesn't wear the WCD close enough to his/her mouth?
Ask him/her her to move it up four fingers from his/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 is used to connect a WCD to an ipad or computer.
What is an audio cord?
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
If it's set seating explain you have a hearing loss/describe noise to signal ratio / equal access rights
This means "one sided" hearing loss.
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?
What should you do if your batteries in your hearing aid go flat during school.
BONUS 100+: What should you do with old batteries?
In class raise your hand and ask to replace your batteries (or just get up and replace them).
BONUS: Give them to an adult to be safely recycled/ Take them to your local battery recycling collection point
This measures the loudness of sound.
What is decibels?
This means "two sided" hearing loss
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?
This should be used for direct instruction, connected to computers and ipads for online learning and worn by peers in group work situations.
What can a wireless communication device (WCD) be used for?
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.