hearing loss

Question 1

most common cause of fluctuating hearing loss

Answer 1

otitis media

Question 2

side of lesion: unilateral vs bilateral hearing loss

Answer 2

hearing loss in just one ear vs both ears

Question 3

conductive hearing loss

Answer 3

sound is not conducted efficiently through the outer ear canal to the eardrum and the tiny bones (ossicles) of the middle ear

Question 4

sensorineural hearing loss

Answer 4

damage to inner ear

Question 5

mixed hearing loss

Answer 5

damage to both outer and inner ear

Question 6

central auditory processing disorder

Answer 6

neurological defect that affects how the brain processes spoken language. This makes it difficult for the child to process verbal instructions or even to filter out background noise in the classroom.

Question 7

severity of hearing loss

Answer 7

0-14 db no loss
15-30 db mild
121+db total loss

Question 8

syntax and morphology w/ hearing loss

Answer 8

delay, overuse of nouns and verbs, simple sentence structure

Question 9

semantics

Answer 9

reduced vocabulary, difficulty understanding abstract terms and figurative expressions

Question 10

pragmatics

Answer 10

when young, same as normal kids with communicative interactions
when older, difficulties in clearly responding to communicating partner

Question 11

literacy

Answer 11

up to 30% of teens with hearing loss are illiterate
good with spelling and punctuation
bad with sentence structure and organization and providing detail

Question 12

How do children who acquire a hearing loss after language acquisition differ from prelingually
hearing impaired children?

Answer 12

prelingual hl kids acquire different speech than acquired hearing loss kids because the prelingual kids have no exposure to language and therefore can only base it off lip reading, which does not always accurately represent speech sounds

Question 13

deaf children born to hearing parents vs born to deaf parents which is more common?

Answer 13

hearing parents

Question 14

who has better language outcome, deaf children with hearing parents or deaf parents?

Answer 14

deaf children of deaf parents because they are better prepared to meet the language needs of a dead child on schedule, also pass through language development stages earlier because visual pathways are earlier understood than auditory

Question 15

auditory/aural approach

Answer 15

Acquiring both receptive & expressive spoken language is realistic goal forchildren with HL

Question 16

auditory-verbal approach

Answer 16

Goal is for individuals w HL to become independent, participating, and contributing citizens, properly respond to aural and auditory cues

Question 17

total communication

Answer 17

philosophy that may include 1 or many methods of communication depending on child’s needs

Question 18

bilingual/bicultural

Answer 18

Assumes ASL is natural language for deaf children

& English should be taught as 2nd language, ultimate goal is proficiency in asl and written language