Intro to Aural Rehabilitation Flashcards
What is aural rehabilitation?
It’s professional efforts aimed to help patients with hearing loss achieve better communication and minimize hearing difficulties
How is aural rehabilitation accomplished?
- Develop appropriate receptive and expressive language
2. Coping strategies
What falls under “developing appropriate receptive and expressive language”?
- Improving hearing ability with amplification or assistive devices
- Alternative or Augmented Communication
What falls under “coping strategies”?
- Limit negative effects on communication partners
- Accept residual difficulties imposed by hearing loss
- Developing appropriate advocacy skills
Is Hearing Loss a disorder?
Yes
How does WHO (World Health Organization) define hearing loss as a disorder?
WHO classifies “disorders” as incorporating three dimensions: Impairment, Activity limitation, and Participation Restriction
According to WHO, what falls under impairment?
Structure or function abnormality
According to WHO, what falls under activity limitation?
Primary Consequence such as impact on verbal(oral) communication
According to WHO, what falls under participation restriction?
Secondary consequences such as: educational, vocational, psychological, and social
Originally, what was the view on infants born with a hearing loss?
They were thought to be incapable of learning language
Who demonstrated that infants born with hearing loss could learn manual communication in the 1500s?
Pedro Ponce de Leon of Spain
When did teaching oral communication to the deaf gained traction?
In the mid 1800s
When was electric amplification developed and Speech-Reading techniques prominent?
In the early 1900s
When did audiologist become more involved with hearing aid dispensing or adjustments?
1970s
Define Aural Habilitation?
It consists of remedial efforts provided to pediatric population born with hearing loss
Define Aural Rehabilitation?
It restores a loss state of function. Aural rehabilitation can be provided to anyone who once had a normal hearing
List the providers of Aural Rehabilitation:
- Audiologist
- Speech-Language Pathologist
- Educator of the Deaf
- Teachers
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Rehabilitation Counselors
- Otolaryngologists/Physicians
Who are the top providers for aural rehabilitation?
a. Audiologist
b. SLPs
c. Educator of the Deaf
Define Rehabilitation Assessment Procedures
It assesses factors that need to be considered BEFORE treatment starts
What is the acronym for Rehabilitation Assessment Procedure?
Communication Status
Overall Participation Variables
Related Personal Factor
Environmental Factors
= CORE
For Rehabilitation Assessment Procedure, what falls under “Communication Status”?
- Traditional Audiometric Tests
- Functional Questionnaires
- Visual Screening (speechreading ability)
- Expressive and receptive communication
For Rehabilitation Assessment Procedure, what falls under “Overall Participation Variables”?
- Psychological
- Social
- Vocational
- Educational
For Rehabilitation Assessment Procedure, what falls under “Related Personal Factors?”
The patient attitude has consisted of four types:
Type I = Strong Positive Attitude
Type II = Mostly positive, but other complications are present
Type III = Negative attitude
Type IV = Reject hearing aids and rehab process altogether
Define Aural Rehabilitative Management
It consists of actual treatment process. It may contain short- or long-term therapy sessions
