Communication Sciences and Disorders 4411A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tympanoplasty, Mastoidectomy, Habilitation
16 Oct 2018
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Treatment strategies used to improve communication in people who once demonstrated normal hearing but are now impaired. Includes: hearing aids and/or other amplification devices, speechreading, auditory training, teaching strategies. Treatment strategies used with people who have hearing impairment from birth: designed to achieve fluent communication in manual or oral modality. Treatment decisions: guided by factors such as age of person and type of hearing problem, ultimate goal of improving individual"s quality of life. In adults, most effective approach is individualized and comprehensive plan that includes: counselling, fitting of amplification devices, aural rehabilitation, special consideration for treatment of children, clinicians work with family to determine most appropriate avenue for habilitation. Speech and language rehabilitation: speech/language difficulties are more likely with , earlier hearing loss (e. g. congenital, prelingual, more severe hearing loss (e. g. severe, profound, common impairments relate to, phonology, consonant and vowel omissions, substitutions, and distortions. Influenced by speech sound visibility and acoustic characteristics: voice/resonance.
