Hcom 352 Final Hearing Loss

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Conductive hearing loss involves which part of the ear>

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CONDUCTIVE= OUTER or MIDDLE EAR- which causes interference in transmission of sound from external auditory canal to INNER EAR.

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Conductive hearing loss is generally MEDICALLY treatable.
TRUE OR FALSE

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TRUE
never exceeds 60dB=moderate/sever level of CONDUCTIVE HEARING LOSS

Front 3

WHAT IS the most common cause of conductive hearing loss?

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OTITIS MEDIA = most common cause of conductive hearing loss and 2nd most common childhood ailment after the common cold

Front 4

The amount of impact a conductive hearing loss may have on speech and language development will depend on?

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THE LENGTH and FREQUENCY of infections

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IF there is an active inflammation with pus and/or a bulging tympanic membrane (eardrum) this is what type of OTITIS MEDIA?

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ACUTE OTITUS MEDIA= inflamed w/ PUS/ bulging tympanic membrane

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Serous Otitis Media describe

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Thin, watery fluid

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Chronic Otitis Media describe

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infection will last beyond acute

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If the otitis media is secretory, describe.

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thick, glue-like fluid

Front 9

If there is a Sensorineural hearing loss this means what?

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damage to the cochlear hair cells or auditory nerve; it may occur during ear development , from injury or infection, environment, or aging

Front 10

What type of hearing loss is usually more permanent than conductive?

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Sensorineural

Front 11

What type of hearing loss is sometimes treated with amplification (hearing aids) or cochlear implant?

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Sensorineural

Front 12

If a person has conductive and sensorineural hearing loss what is it called?

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Mixed hearing loss
(degree can vary in Hearing loss)

Front 13

How is mixed hearing loss categorized?

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using PURE TONE AVERAGE (PTA) which is the average of pure tone frequencies at 500, 1,000, 2,000 HZ

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PTA (pure tone average is at what Hz?

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500, 1,000, & 2,000 hz

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PTA can be categorized as mild, moderate, moderate-severe, severe, and profound, name what each dB would be for each category.

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Mild: PTA of 26-40 dB (hard of hearing)
Moderate: PTA of 41-55 dB(hard of hearing)
Moderate-Severe: 56-70 dB (hard of hearing)
Severe: 71-90 dB (sometimes Hard of Hearing, sometimes deaf)
Profound: poorer than 90 dB (usually deaf)
DEAF: 91 & OVER

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A 71-90 DB IS WHAT CATEGORY OF PTA>

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SEVERE (sometimes hard of hearing , sometimes deaf)

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A 56-70 dB is what category of PTA?

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Moderate-Severe (hard of hearing)

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A 41-55dB is what category of PTA?

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Moderate (hard of hearing)

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A 26-40 dB is what category of PTA?

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Mild (hard of hearing)

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A 90dB is what category of PTA?

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(usually deaf) Profound

Front 21

What is canonical babbling?

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An advanced form of babbling that consists of well informed consonant -vowel combinations that children begin to use around 10 months of age.

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How do Children with hearing loss use Canonical babbling?

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Children with HL use canonical babbling LESS and have a more limited range of consonants.

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TRUE OR FALSE
TRUE OR FALSE
Children with cochlear implants HAVE worse intelligibility than children who use hearing aids

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FALSE
Children with Cochlear implants have Better INtelligibility than children with Hearing Aids

Front 24

Children speak what they hear and are more likely to produce segmental features correctly if what occurs>?

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IF child is able to detect the Place, Voice, and Manner of a sound= produce characteristics of sound correctly (segmental Features)

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IF child has a loss with certain frequencies what happens to those sounds at those frequencies?

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The certain sounds at those frequencies can be affected

Front 26

What phonological process errors are the most common with the hearing impaired?

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Deletions and substitutions with FINAL CONSONANT DELETION THE MOST COMMON

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What phonological processes do children with Hearing loss have?

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-Confusion of voiced and unvoiced cognates
-Substitution of stops for fricatives and liquids
-Confusion between oral and nasal consonants
-Deletions and substitutions w/ final consonant deletion (MOST COMMON)

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What happens with vowel if a child has a hearing loss?

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NEUTRALIZATION of vowels (ALL VOWELS SOUND THE SAME)

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How do children with hearing loss produce DIPHTHONGS?

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DIPHTHONGS are produced as MONOPHTHONGS

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Name Suprasegmental (prosodic) Features that children with hearing loss experience?

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Reduced Speech Rates
Slow Articulatory Transitions
Distorted Resonance
Too loud or too soft of volume

Front 31

What % of children with HL are born to hearing parents?

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90%

Front 32

Since 90% of children with HL are born to hearing parents what happens to their receptive and expressive language?

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Receptive & expressive Language is delayed partly because the parents are NOT using the needed communication mode early enough (i.e Signing)

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An adult with a pre-lingual profound hearing loss have syntax/morphology skills that are at what level?

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LOWER THAN 8 YEAR OLD

Adults w/ pre-lingual PROFOUND hearing loss have syntax/morphology skills that are LOWER than that of a hearing eight year old

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What are some syntax/ Morphology features that occur with language for people with a hearing loss?

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1. Overuse of nouns and verbs, UNDER USE of ADVERBS, Prepositions and Pronouns
2. Omit Function Words such as Articles
3. USe of Simple Sentences rather than Compound
4. Deletion of morphological markers such as plural "s" or PAst Tense

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It is estimated that Most Adults with Significant HL NEVER DEVELOP a vocabulary better than what grade level?

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ADULT w/ significant HL NEVER DEVELOP a Vocabulary better than that of a FOURTH GRADER w/ normal hearing. (SEMANTIC FEATURES)

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Name how the semantic features that are affected for those with a significant Hearing loss.

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1. MUCH SMALLER VOCABULARY
2. Vocabulary is MORE CONCRETE with LESS ABSTRACT vocabulary usage
3. Difficulty with WORD ASSOCIATIONS such as ANTONYMS and SYNONYMS
4. Difficulty understanding more than the most common meaning of multiple meaning words

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A person with a significant hearing loss is affected with their pragmatics. How do they use QUESTIONS?

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PRAGMATICS: USE QUESTIONS INAPPROPRIATELY (HL)

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NAME PRAGMATIC ISSUES people with HL have.

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1. USE q's inappropriately
2. Difficulty initiating/ maintaining a conversation
3. Difficulty with turn taking, topic maintenance and appropriately Switching topics

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How are people with a HL affected in conversation with using pragmatics?

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DIFFICULT INITIATING/ MAINTAINING A CONVERSATION

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What is the grade level a high school student with profound hearing loss reaches?

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3rd or 4th grade level (LITERACY)

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What are reading problems related to?

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LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS

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Reason there are reading issues with HL

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LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT &
NEVER develop the auditory basis for mapping sound to PRINT (LETTER SOUND CORRESPONDENCE)

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WHAT IS CAPD?

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Central auditory processing disorder: INability to differentiate , Recognize, and Understand sounds which is NOT due to HL or COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT

Front 44

TRUE OR FALSE
CAPDs is due to HL and COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT

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FALSE
IT IS NOT DUE TO HL OR COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT

Front 45

Why is the sound transmission between brain stem and cerebrum disrupted?

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DUE TO DAMAGE or MALFORMATION

Front 46

What is the most common cause of capds?

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IDIOPATHIC

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What are the causes of CAPDs?

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IDIOPATHIC, Head TRauma, Brain Tumors,Autism, Neurological Vascular changes

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CAPD's usually have difficulties with What characteristics?

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LOCALIZING SOUND, AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION, AUDITORY PATTERN RECOGNITION, ASSOCIATING MEANING TO SOUND, Listening in NOISE, Understanding degraded speech signals, fast speech, or speech with an unfamiliar accent, Following rhythmic and melodic aspects of Music

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HOw do you DIAGNOSE CAPDs?

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Difficult to diagnose since it does not show up on the AUDIOGRAMS

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USUALLY CAPDs cannot be diagnosed till what age?

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3 years old due to speech audiometric measures being inappropriate for children under 3 years of age.

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Speech Audiometric Testing is usually conducted by?

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AUDIOLOGIST and additional measures of auditory discrimination and auditory processing can be conducted by an SLP or sometimes a PSYCHOLOGIST