SLHS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Deaf Culture, Noise Reduction, Cochlear Implant
11 Sep 2017
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Conductive hearing loss: stopping transmission of acoustic and vibrational energy to cochlea. Surgery for conductive loss: surgical repair of the affected part of the auditory system, anotia, microtia/anotia/canal atresia, ossicular malformation, stapendectomy, the problem, otosclerosis, the solution, stapendectomy. The trouble with snhl: we currently can"t cure snhl, we can work to alleviate snhl. Aural rehabilitation: the process of assessing, diagnosing, and treating a hearing loss, the ultimate goal: functional communication for the person with hearing loss, the aural rehabilitation tree, environmental modification, counseling, amplification, speechreading, communication strategies, auditory training, microphones. Environmental modification: the problem: noise, noise makes it hard to hear for everyone. Speech reading: the use of, facial expression, gestures, a(cid:374)d (cid:449)hat you see o(cid:374) the speaker(cid:859)s lip to help you understand, benefit from visual cues lipreading, helpful, problem with visemes. Auditory training: neuroplasticity, we get better at things we practice.
