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chapter 11
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cognenitally deaf | born deaf |
| adventitioisly deaf | becomes deaf sometime after birth |
| pre lingual deafness | occurs after birth or early in life and language development |
| postlingual deafness | occurs after the developement of speech and language |
| tympanic membrane (eardrum) | bewtween the middle and outer ear |
| auricle | part of the ear that protrude from the head |
| ossicles | very tiny bones |
| malleus | hammer (small air-filled space in the middle ear) |
| incus | anvil (small air-filled space in the middle ear) |
| stapes | stirrup (small air-filled space in the middle ear) |
| vestibular mechanism | upper portion of the inner ear, sense of balance |
| cochlea | most impprtant pat of the ear for hearing |
| otoacoustic emissions | low sounds |
| audiologist | trained person dealing with hearing impariments |
| pure-tone audiometry | hearing at a varity of frequesncies |
| hertz (hz) | measure frecuency, number of vibrations per minute |
| audiometric zero | lowest level at which somone can hear |
| speech audiometry | test a persons detection and understanding of speech |
| speech-reception threshold (SRT) | decible level where one can understand speech |
| conductive hearing impairment | interference with the transfer of sound along the conductive pathway of the middle or outer ear |
| mixed hearing impairment | problems in the middle and innter ear |
| sensorineural hearing impairment | problems in the innder ear |
| external otits | swimmers ear, infection in and outside of the ear |
| otitis media | inflamation in the middle-ear space |
| connexion-26 gene | most common congrnital deafness |
| congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) | herpes virus |
| sign language | a manual language used to communicate with deaf people |
| in virto fertilization | used to help infertile mothers, egg cells from the mother are fertalized in a lab and placed back in the mothers uterus |
| oralism-manualism debate | teaching people who are deaf to speak |
| total communication or simultaneous communication | oral and manual teaching methods |
| bicultural-bilingual approach | promotes asl as a first language and suppots instruction in the deaf culture |
| auditory-verbal approach | improve speech and language development |
| auditory-oral approach | visual cues for speech |
| speechreading | visual information to understnad what is being said |
| cued speech | speech reading with hearing impariments, using hand shapes to represent sound |
| homophenes | diffrent sounds that are visually identical when spoken |
| signing english system | total communication with the simulatneous fo speech |
| fingerspelling | representation of letters of the english alpahabet by finger position |
| text telephones (TT) | devices for deaf |
| video relay service (VRS) | people who are deaf to communicate with sign language interpertation |
| transliteration | same word order as spoken in ASL |
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nmyers05