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Beginner defenitions

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Term
Definition
Aural   Anything to do with hearing or resolving hearing  
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Aural Rehabilitation   treatment to improve communication with people that have hearing loss after knowing how to talk  
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Aural Habilitation   treatment to improve communication for people who have congenital hearing loss  
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Conversational fluency   ability to have a smooth conversation-to and fro  
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Impairment   any loss or abnormality of psychological/physiological/anatomical/structure of functon  
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Disability   Any reduction in a persons ability to adress the needs of daily living  
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ALD (assistave listening devices)   Non-hearing aid: FM personal amplifiers, alerting devices, closed captioning  
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Degree   Severity of loss  
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Handicap   any social or occupational disadvantage a person suffers (also affected by the people they come in contact with)  
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ICF definition of disability:   Impairments and activity limitations and participation restrictions (interactions, health condition, personal and enviromental factors)  
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ICF disability 6 criteria:   1.cognition 2.mobility 3.self care 4. getting along 5. life activites 6. participation  
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bilateral   both ears  
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unilateral   one ear  
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symmetrical   hearing loss same in both ears  
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asymmetrical   hearing loss different in ears  
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Fluctuating   having hearing loss change over time  
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dEAF   profound HL (90dB or more)  
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Deaf   functonally-> social identiy ASL  
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Prelingual   before child learns speech (2years)  
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Perilingual   Hearing lost while acquiring language  
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Postlingual   deafness develops after acqusition of language (after age 6 usually-uncommon)  
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Congenital   Hearing loss at or before birth  
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Acquired   Hearing loss appears after birth (result of a disease-meningitis for example.)  
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Progressive   hearing loss becomes worse over time  
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Sudden   Hearing loss happens quickly  
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Goals of AR   minimize or rid of communication difficulties and increase conversational fluency and of difficulties. (minimize the consequences)  
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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?  
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Information counseling   audiogram interpretation, technology and amplification options, communication options, public health policies.  
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Adjustment counseling   support to families: recognize, acknowledge, cope, advice  
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Sensorineural Hearing loss   inner ear, midbrain, auditory context, 8th nerve, brain stem (usually permanent)  
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