Auditory processing disorder

loss come across day to day basis. This experience allowed me to have a deeper perspective into how a hearing impairment can affect how we communicate and ultimately how we live life. My experience began as I placed the ear plugs in my external auditory canal. The sensation of having the ear plugs in the…

Down-Syndrome Do you ever see other people and wonder why they act and look so differently? Their is a genetic disorder by the name of Down-Syndrome. Down-Syndrome is a condition in which a person has 47 chromosomes while others have 46 it is also the most common chromosome condition. People with this disorder may have the facial features of flat face, small nose, upward slant eyes, enlarged tongue and may appear shorter than others. Kids with Down-Syndrome tend to grow at a slower rate. You…

I. Summary (1-2 paragraphs) The documentary Sound and Fury addresses the use of cochlear implants for individuals who are considered by a medical professional or speech and language pathologist as either deaf or hard-of-hearing. In this specific film, Heather, age 6, and Peter, who is almost 2 years of age, are individuals who, after the consultation of numerous respective occupations, believes could benefit from a cochlear implant. This documentary focuses on the fact that the implementation…

Tympanic Membrane Perforation A tympanic membrane perforation is a hole in your eardrum. The eardrum is a thin sheet of tissue that separates your middle ear from your ear canal. It protects your middle ear from germs that can cause infection. A tympanic membrane perforation can cause ear pain and hearing loss. CAUSES This condition may be caused by: An injury, such as: A blow to the side of the head. A fall onto water or a flat surface. Too much pressure on the eardrum,…

in all three learning styles can make you an optimum learner. Until I become a well rounded learner i can tell people that verbal instruction suits me best and that I would be better off with verbal instruction. In conclusion, I know that I am an auditory learner but I will strive to be a well rounded learner by trying my best to learn in other…

ways to look at learning and it is usually based on your strengths, weaknesses and preferences. There are three styles of learning: Auditory, which is relating to hearing, visual, which is relating to seeing or sight and tactile, which is the connection of senses of touch. My learning style that got the highest for the quiz was tactile with 40% and the others, auditory and visual both 30%. This means it is easier for me to learn in hands on activities and using fine motor movement rather than…

events such as cochlear damage, circulatory disorder or age. Persons afflicted with tinnitus may hear a constant noise disturbance throughout their day while other may only hear is off and on in various time expanses. The pathophysiological mechanism for this condition is not yet known and Moon et al. conducted a study to try and lay a roadmap to where the tinnitus symptoms may stem from. In being able to establish a pathway for damage done to the auditory system future researchers may be able…

Who am I as a learner and global citizen is as follows, This will also link to my goals as a learner. One of my Goals is to truly be myself, and not listen when people judge me and all the stuff that they just throw in my face, but you can just ignore it and put it down. Which is why one of my heroes is Eminem, as a result, that’s exactly what he does, and he still goes the same path that he’s chosen, and he’s still great. One of my school goals is to try not to chop into so much trouble,…

0.075 16.76 17.15 250 0.125 13.52 15.14 350 0.175 10.06 13.00 550 0.275 2.74 8.42 750 0.375 -4.89 3.60 Table 1 . Results The purpose of this research was to illustrate and compare the differences in shapes of auditory filters of two individuals. The signal to noise ratio (P/N0) represented in Table 1, is a ratio of the power in the signal (P) over the spectrum level of noise (N0) which remained at 35 decibels except in the notch. The P/N0 is given in…

in a different way to help deaf or almost deaf people. Scientists however believe, that there is little hope of this happening very soon. Another thought is to present deaf toddlers with idealized synthetic speech, because this may be useful in auditory learning in the future. Through the past, science has been applied in many different ways, to help solve medical problems. Science is not only used to make important discoveries of different medicines, but also to make discoveries used for…