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) |