Hearing Loss And Speech Flashcards
What are the 3 types of hearing loss
Conductive hearing loss.
Sensorineural hearing loss
Mixed hearing loss
What are some speech characteristics of someone with hearing loss?
- Vowel substitutions
- difficulty with voice- voiceless distinction.
- Substitutions (voice-voiceless, nasal- oral, fricative - stop)
- Omissions of initial and final consonants
- Inappropriate nasalization of consonants.
- Slow rate of speech
- Use more frequent pauses and slower articulatory transitions
During assessment, what do we need to know about someone’s hearing loss?
Age of HL onset
Degree and type of HL
Treatment steps:
- Detection - is child responding to sounds?
- Discrimination - similarities/differences between 2 or more stimuli
- Identification - of sounds
- Comprehension - following directions, vocab, understanding a story)
- Listening check for ling 6 sounds (/m/,/ɑ/, /u/, /i/, / ʃ /, /s/)
What are some strategies to use in treatment with someone with hearing loss?
A. Reduce the distance between child and the teacher.
B. Use short phrases
C. Acoustic highlighting
D. Give options and choices
E. Give cue with target sound
F. Consider speech banana
What are the perceptual factors that affect the communication of people with conductive hearing loss (otitis media) and sensorineural hearing loss?
individual is unable to monitor his or her own
productions as a speaker (cannot listen to his or her own
productions and compare them to an internal mental
storage of the intended form)
individual is unable to receive incoming messages
Treatment options for child with hearing loss
- Auditory/verbal communication (listening and speaking),
- American sign language
- Total communication (auditory approach and sign language)
What does the Ling 6 Sound test measure?
(/m/,/ɑ/, /u/, /i/, / ʃ /, /s/)
- looks at dif frequencies.
As you make sounds, you cover your mouth to know if they can detect.
