Auditory Rehabilitation

Question 1

decisions regarding the best approach are guided by factors such as ? with the ultimate goal of ?

Answer 1

age of the person and type of hearing problem

improving indiv. quality of life

Question 2

aural rehabilitation : techniques used with people who are ? these individuals once?
aural habilitation:

Answer 2

hearing impaired to improve their ability to communicate

• demonstrated normal hearing
• techniques used with people who are hearing impaired at birth

Question 3

only 1/5 people who could benefit from a hearing aid ?

Answer 3

actually wear one

Question 4

what is a hearing aid?
a hearing aid is an ?
sound hits ? --> ...--->transmitted to a ----> delivered to 
some hearing aids use a ? 
some are ?
may be used in ?

Answer 4

electronic device that amplifies sound
microphone , amplification, mini loudspeaker (speaker/receiver), patient’s ear
-bone conduction vibrator
-partially or fully implanted
-conductive, sensorineural, or mixed losses

Question 5

hearing aids:

3 basic parts

Answer 5

microphone
amplifier
speaker

Question 6

treatment of hearing loss 
hearing aids don't just?
amplify ? and compress?
amplify sounds only for ?
-... or.. chunks depending on ?
amplify? diminish?

Answer 6

amplify sound 
signal/ intensity differences 
frequencies most impaired 
smaller or larger/sophistication of hearing aid 
speech/noise

Question 7

common myths 
they will ?
they get rid of ?
my mama hated her hearing aids so ?
they will be as easy to adjust as

Answer 7

restore hearing to normal
background noise
i will too
eyeglasses

Question 8

benefits of binaural amplification
better?
better?

other thoughts…
auditory ? if left unaided
small percentage of patients have ?

Answer 8

clarity in background noise
localization

deprivation if left unaided
decreased performance when aiding the poorer ear

Question 9

types of hearing aids
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older types 
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Answer 9

behind the ear BTE
in the ear ITE
in the canal ITC
completely in the canal CIC

body type aid
eyeglasses

Question 10

open fit hearing aids 
type of ?
over ? of hearing aid market 
smaller than traditional ? better ?
what design ? often incorporating ? 
-no/less

Answer 10

BTE 
40% of hearing aid market 
BTEs with thin tube / cosmetics 
open design ear tip 
receiver
-occlusion

Question 11

RIC receiver in the canal
many open fit hearing aids incorporate ?
advantages:

Answer 11

receiver into the ear bud that sits in the canal

-reduces feedback, extends fitting range

Question 12

Bone conduction hearing aids 
patients with ?
patients who cannot use air conduction hearing aids for  other?
patients with ?
the transducer is a? placed on the?
vibration of the ?
stimulates both ?
from a single ?

Answer 12

conductive loss 
otologic reasons (persistent or recurrent ear drainage, canal abnormalities) 
single sided deafness (SSD) 
vibrating receiver/mastoid process
skull 
cochleas 
BC instrument

Question 13

Bone anchored hearing aid (BAHA)

works by taking the sound from

Answer 13

outside and transmitting it to inner ear through the bone

Question 14

Implantable bone conduction devices (BAHA)

Answer 14

surgical placement of a bone conduction aid

Question 15

Cochlear implants

a surgically implanted ?

Answer 15

cochlear prostheses that bypasses the damaged peripheral auditory system to directly stimulate the VIII nerve for hearing

Question 16

cochlear implants

works by transmitting signals sent through the skull to an

Answer 16

array of electrodes situated along different regions of the cochlea

Question 17

cochlear implants 
auditory nerve must?
tiny ? 
threaded through ?
connected to radio receiver under ? signals transmitted from ?
signals stimulate ?
doesnt sound ?

Answer 17

be intact 
flexible coil (24 microelectrodes)
round window and into cochlea 
scalp/microphone behind ear 
AN fibers 
normal

Question 18

Treatment approaches: SLP rehabilitation
concerns treatment of the speech and language abnormalities that may ?
these may include

Answer 18

accompany hearing impairment

• language
• articulation
• voice
• prosody

Question 19

Rehabilitation approaches

Answer 19

speech reading 
cued speech 
oral/aural approach 
SimCom
manual approach

Question 20

Cued speech 
uses ? 
talker speaks while ?
individually, the hand signals are ? they are used to ?
has been adapted to more than ?

Answer 20

phonemically-based hand gestures to supplement speechreading

• cueing message
• uninterpretable/distinguish viseme members
• 60 languages

Question 21

Aural/oral language
same language used by those with ?
child will speak messages and use ?
children using a multisensory approach use both ?
in small pocket, a unisensory approach is advocated where reliance on ?

Answer 21

normal hearing
speechreading to receive messages
-vision and hearing to recognize speech
-visual speech signal is not encouraged

Question 22

The tech
current tech allows a child
-to have access to
-to learn to talk through
-to have listening as a major force in their?
the development of spoken language depends upon the individual student’s access to a ?

Answer 22

• spoken language
• listening
• personal, social, and academic development

a maximized and consistent auditory signal

Question 23

SimCom
comprised of ? corresponding to the words of ?
person speak simultaneously while
called ? the child uses every available means to ?
can ?

Answer 23

manual signs / english sharing syntactic structures
signing
total communication/receive message, including sign, residual hearing, and lipreading
fingerspell those words that do not have a sign

Question 24

sign language 
manual system of ? 
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other countries have

Answer 24

comm. expressed by hands through
-configuration
-orientation
-location in space
-movement
comparable systems