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Kyndall Carroll-Ch12
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Congenitally Deaf | Those who are born deaf |
| Adventitiously Deaf | Those who acquire deafness at some time after birth |
| Prelingual Deafness | Deafness that occurs at birth or early. |
| Postlingual Deafness | Deafness that occurs after the development of speech and language |
| Tympanic Membrane (eardrum) | Boundary between the outer and middle ears |
| Auricle | Part of the ear that protrudes from the side of the head. |
| Ossicles | 3 tiny bones in the middle ear |
| Malleus | Hammer |
| Incus | Anvil |
| Stapes | Stirrup |
| Oval Window | Link between the middle and inner ears. |
| Vestibular Mechanism | Responsible for the sense of balance |
| Cochlea | Contains the parts necessary to convert the mechanical action of the middle ear into an electrical signal in the inner ear that is transmitted to the brain. |
| Otoacoustic Emissions | Low intensity sounds produced by the cochlea in response to audiotory stumulation |
| Audiologist | An individual trained in audiology |
| Pure-tone Audiometry | Establishes the individual's threshold for hearing at the cariety of different frequencies |
| Hertz (Hz) | Measures frequency |
| Audiometric Zero | Zero-decibel level |
| Speech Audiometry | Tests a person's detection and understanding of speech. |
| Speech-reception Threshold (SRT) | The decibel level at which one can understand speech |
| Conductive Hearing Impairment | An interference with the transfer of sound along the conductive pathway of the middle or outer ear |
| Sensorineural Hearing Impairment | Problems in the inner ear |
| Mixed Hearing Impairment | Combo of CHI and SHI |
| External Otitis | Infection of the skin of the external auditory canal |
| Otitis Media | Inflammation of the middle-ear space |
| Connexin Gene | Most common cause of congenital deafness |
| Congenital Cytomegalovirus (CMV) | Most frequent nongenetic cause of deafness in infants |
| Sign Language | A manual language used by people who are deaf to communicate |
| In vitro fertilization | Procedure used to help infertile couples |
| Oralism-Mannualism Debate | Debate over how deaf people should communicate |
| Total Communication | Both oral and manual methods of communication |
| Simultaneous Communication | Both oral and manual methods of communication |
| Bicultural-Bilingual Approach | Promotes ASL as a first language and supports instruction in the deaf culture |
| Audiotory-verbal Approach | focuses on using audition to improve speech and language development |
| Audiotory-oral Approach | stresses use of visual cues |
| Speechreading | teaching children to use visual information to understand what is being said to them |
| Cued Speech | Way of augmenting speechreading |
| Homophenes | different sounds that are visually identical when spoken |
| Signing English Systems | Used simultaneously with oral methods in the total communication approach to teaching students who are deaf |
| Fingerspelling | Representation of letters of the English alphabet by finger positions |
| Text Telephones | types messages to someone else with a TT |
| Video Relay service | Enables people who are deaf to communicate with people who hear through a sign language interpreter |
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