Aural Rehab - Exam 2 Flashcards
What do HA’s do?
amplify sound enough to compensate for loss
Cochlear Implants
implantable electronic devices that convert sound energy to electrical energy which directly stimulates the auditory nerve
- hair cell damage is too severe
1990 FDA approved….
cochlear implants for children
1984 FDA approved….
House/3M single cochlear implant
Adult CI team
surgeon and AuD
Adult Implant Criteria
Moderate to profound bilateral sensorineural loss, little or no benefit from HA’s (50% or less on WR test)
CI Critical Factors
Age of onset, duration of profound loss, HA use and quality, support of family and realistic expectations
Medical CI Criteria
12+ months of age, able to tolerate general anesthesia/recovery process, patent cochlea on imaging studies
Pediatric CI Team
Parents, educators, surgeon, AuDs, SLPs, child psychologist, social worker
CI Criteria (12-24 months)
profound bilateral SNHL, limited benefit from appropriate HA, lack of progress in auditory skill development with amplification and aggressive intervention.
exception to 1 year is meningitis
CI Criteria (25 months - 17 years)
severe-profound bilateral SNHL, plateua in development of auditory skills, WR less than 30%
CI Components (Internal and External)
Internal receiver and electrode array; microphone, connecting cables, speech processor and transmitter
CI’s programmed using these parameters
Dynamic range
Loudness balancing
Pitch matching
Bilateral CIs have…
better performance in noise, improved localization ability, positive reports from patients/parents and less vulnerable to performance problems
Hearing Assistance Technology Systems (HATS) and Assistive Listening Devices (ALD) are used to address…
face to face communication, electronic media, telephone use and environmental stimuli
FM Units
The speaker wears a microphone and their speech is sent to the listener wirelessly, by a frequency modulating signal
Disadvantages: subject to interference, expensive, repairs, need to have correct channels in the classroom, speaker must remember to turn off the microphones when having private conversation.
Lipreading
process of recognizing speech using only the visual speech signal and other visual cues, such as facial expressions.
Speech reading
is speech recognition using both auditory and visual cues, facial expressions and gestures – it includes lipreading, but is much more!
Visual speech signal
one of the most effective means for persons with hearing loss to enhance their recognition of speech language
Lipreading variable that have predictive power
Cognitive skills
Age
Type of hearing loss
People with perfectly normal hearing often rely on…
speechreading
Residual Hearing
limiting hearing ability can assist in speech recognition when combined with visual cues.
Combining even some sound with visual cues shows why people with profound hearing loss are so dependent on hearing aids
Speechreading is affect by… (4)
Talker
Message
Speechreading environment and communication situation
Speechreader
Vision-Only speechreading
typically comprise of the talkers head ans shoulders with the talker and patient head on
Audition-Plus-Vision speechreading
enhanced by comparing speech recognition scores in vision-only vs audition-plus-vision conditions
Martha Emma Bruhn (1902)
rapid syllable drill
rapid phrase recognition
Edward Nitchie (1912)
Rarely used drills
Used sentences and stories
Contextual cues
Cora Kinze (1917)
analytic and synthetic