Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Aural Rehabilitation
Beginner defenitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aural | Anything to do with hearing or resolving hearing |
| Aural Rehabilitation | treatment to improve communication with people that have hearing loss after knowing how to talk |
| Aural Habilitation | treatment to improve communication for people who have congenital hearing loss |
| Conversational fluency | ability to have a smooth conversation-to and fro |
| Impairment | any loss or abnormality of psychological/physiological/anatomical/structure of functon |
| Disability | Any reduction in a persons ability to adress the needs of daily living |
| ALD (assistave listening devices) | Non-hearing aid: FM personal amplifiers, alerting devices, closed captioning |
| Degree | Severity of loss |
| Handicap | any social or occupational disadvantage a person suffers (also affected by the people they come in contact with) |
| ICF definition of disability: | Impairments and activity limitations and participation restrictions (interactions, health condition, personal and enviromental factors) |
| ICF disability 6 criteria: | 1.cognition 2.mobility 3.self care 4. getting along 5. life activites 6. participation |
| bilateral | both ears |
| unilateral | one ear |
| symmetrical | hearing loss same in both ears |
| asymmetrical | hearing loss different in ears |
| Fluctuating | having hearing loss change over time |
| dEAF | profound HL (90dB or more) |
| Deaf | functonally-> social identiy ASL |
| Prelingual | before child learns speech (2years) |
| Perilingual | Hearing lost while acquiring language |
| Postlingual | deafness develops after acqusition of language (after age 6 usually-uncommon) |
| Congenital | Hearing loss at or before birth |
| Acquired | Hearing loss appears after birth (result of a disease-meningitis for example.) |
| Progressive | hearing loss becomes worse over time |
| Sudden | Hearing loss happens quickly |
| Goals of AR | minimize or rid of communication difficulties and increase conversational fluency and of difficulties. (minimize the consequences) |
| 4 parameters of Hearing loss | 1.what is severity? 2. When did loss begin? 3. what is the cause? 4.How quickly has it progressed? |
| Information counseling | audiogram interpretation, technology and amplification options, communication options, public health policies. |
| Adjustment counseling | support to families: recognize, acknowledge, cope, advice |
| Sensorineural Hearing loss | inner ear, midbrain, auditory context, 8th nerve, brain stem (usually permanent) |
Created by:
1043520062
Popular Medical sets