Test 1 Flashcards
Threshold
Softest intensity level someone can respond to 50% of the time
Dynamic range
Usable range of someone’s hearing
Dynamic range of sensorineural hearing loss
Reduced on both sides: higher thresholds (increase in dB) and decreased tolerance levels (react to noise more strongly)
Recruitment
Abnormal perception of sound
Corner audiogram
Responses only in bottom corner of audiogram
Residual hearing
Amount of leftover usable hearing a person has
Gain
The amount of extra hearing the person gets from hearing aids
Normal range (adults and school age)
- 10 to 20 or 25dB
- 10 to 15dBHL
Speech zone
Ranges from 30-60dB
250-5000Hz
Consonant sounds higher frequency than vowels
Hard of hearing
People with significant hearing loss and receive most communication auditorally
Deaf
Receive most communication visually
Self-fulfilling prophecy
End up either not speaking or speaking based on what others think they’re capable of
Ex: severely impaired may speak, but can’t based on expectation of others
Rehabilitation approaches
Oral/aural, acoupedic, verbal-tonal, LSLS (auditory only)
Cued speech, SEE, ASL (visual only or mainly visual)
Total communication (theoretical and functional)
Developing listening and talking
Early identification and intervention
Vigilant/ongoing audiologic management
Consistent and immediate auditory brain access
Professional guidance (parent coaching)
Daily formal/informal auditory, language, cognitive, and literacy enrichment
Congenital vs adventitious speech
Better speech with adventitious loss
Lazy speech
Capable of producing all phonemes, but don’t do it consistently
Sensory deprivation
Period of time when an organism is denied some form of stimulation
Effects greatest when organism is younger
early intervention best to repair damage
Critical period
Biologically and socially determined time during which an organism can most effectively develop a skill