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Chapter 11

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Congenitally deaf Those who were born deaf
Adventitiously deaf Those who acquired deafness at sometime after birth
Prelingual deafness Deaf that occurs at birth or early in life before speech and language development
Tympanic membrane Boundary between the outer and middle ears
Auricle The part of the year that protrudes from side of the head
Oval window The link between the middle and inner ears
Vestibular mechanism Located in the upper portion of the inner ear, is responsible for the sense of balance.
Cochlea By for the most important organ for hearing.
Otacoustic Emissions These sounds emitted by the Coachella are known as Oda acoustic emissions.
Pure tone audiometry Designed to establish the individuals threshold for hearing at a variety of different frequencies.
Hertz Has to do more with the number of vibrations per unit of time of a sound wave.
Audiometric zero The zero decibal level.
Speech audiometry To test a person's detection and understanding of speech.
Conductive hearing impairment Refers to an interference with the transfer of sound along the conductive pathway of the middle or outer ear.
Sensorineural hearing impairment involves problems in the inner ear.
Mixed hearing impairment A combination of the two.
External otitis An infection of the skin of the external auditorial canal.
Otitis media An information of the middle ear space.
Connexin 26 gene The most common cause of congenital deafness.
Congenital cytomegalovirus A herpes virus, is the most frequent non-genetic cause of deafness and infants.
Oralism manualism debate Borealism favors teaching people who are deaf to speak, whereas manual ism advocates the use of some kind of manual communication.
Homophenes Different sounds that are visually identical when spoken.
Finger spelling Representation of letters of the English alphabet by finger positions, is also used occasionally to spell out certain words.
Text telephones People can use a TT to connect to a telephone to type a message to anyone else who has a TT.
Transliteration Similar to signed English, maintains the same word order is spoken English.
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