Chapter 13- Pedriatic Hearing Loss

Question 0

To work effectively with children with hearing loss, professionals must understand what three things?

Answer 0

1- the auditory mechanism and its disorders
2- the impact of the disorder on children’s social and academic selves
3- variety of intervention strategies to promote achievement possibilities

Question 1

What is the auditory system responsible for?

Answer 1

Detecting, categorizing, and comprehending sounds

Question 2

What is pediatric hearing loss?

Answer 2

A child or adolescent is unable to detect or distinguish the range of sounds normally available to the human ear

Question 3

What is it called when hearing losses result from damage to the processing centers of the brain?

Answer 3

Auditory processing disorders (APD)

Question 4

What kind of variability is there in pediatric hearing loss?

Answer 4

location of damage, bilateral vs. unilateral, extent to which it affects hearing acuity, chronicity (how long it is present), congenital vs. acquired

Question 5

Hearing loss is also often called what?

Answer 5

Hearing impairment, hearing disorder, deafness, hard of hearing