Conductive hearing loss

actually talking and that is “effective listening”. This type of listening ensures we understand the client and helps rectify conflict. Many people do not think they need to improve their listening skills, but they do. Effective listening and hearing is not the same thing. If you have really demonstrated effective listening, you should almost be able to create yourself a “mental picture” of the message the client is trying to send. If we need to listen for long periods of time we need to…

The Listening Project is a documentary that follows four Americans around the globe as they ask people in various countries questions about their opinions on America. The four Americans are Bao Phi, Bob Roeglin, Cattie Lennox, and Han Shan. Each of the Americans are from different backgrounds and different areas of the country. They visit and talk to people from countries such as Russia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Canada, China, India, Great Britain, Japan, and Mexico. Each of these countries has…

strategies to use to combat distorted listening. Filtered listening is one form of distorted listening. When the helper stops hearing the person and starts personal, familial, sociological and cultural filters they introduce forms of bias into their listening. Being bias can distort what the helper is hearing and makes them become one sided, or jaded preventing them from actively hearing the client and possibly developing a prejudices towards the client. Another kind of distorted listening…

In the video clip, the narrator is advocating active listening. Active listening is defined as a process in which the listener paraphrases what the speaker says to clarify the message (Fujishin, 2012, p. 81). It is a simple way of communication that lets the speaker know the listener is engaged, and that they genuinely care. This type of communication is essential in the healthcare profession, when one is dealing with vulnerable populations. In the short video A Story About Care, the narrator…

In everyday life we interpret the world around us using our five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing. What if you were born without one of those senses, or maybe multiple of them? How do people adapt to the world if they are born blind, and is it the same way people that have an accident or disease that caused their blindness later on in life adapt? We know that people have overcome their disabilities to do great things for instance Hellen Keller who was born a deaf/blind/mute went…

The definition of listening is being able to interpret both the non-verbal and verbal messages from others. This skill could be used when establishing leadership with your employees. In some leadership theories, like participative leadership where the employees are crucial and involved in the decision making of the business. A website that supports how to learn these tools are: https://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/ActiveListening.htm. I like this website because it focuses on active listening and…

I sat at the table in the counselor's office room, uncomfortably tight headphones on my ears. Taking the the hearing and vision screening test for the first time ever. Beeps pulsed through my ears, I gave a thumbs up for every beep I heard, and before I knew it, the test was over. I walked out, without giving any thought to the events that had just occurred. What was there to consider? Soon I was back in class, learning how to spell “light” and “right”. Which I had apparently been spelling wrong…

“I FOUND IT!” Nicole burst into Zach’s apartment, waving a sheet of notebook paper. “Found what?” Zach sat up, his heart swelling at the thought of what she might say next. “The address, Zach, the address, it’s the paper factory!” Nicole shrieked and laughed, almost starting to dance around the room. “Holy- holy cow, Nicole!” Zach laughed. Nicole leapt at him and they grabbed each other into a hug. “Y-you aren’t joking?” “No!” Nicole was overcome with emotion. “We-we found her. We did it.”…

is going to talk about. 25. He starts off by saying how listening is an active skill and that how hearing is a passive skill. So basically, you hear all the time, even when you are sleeping, and you only listen when you actively want to e.g. When for instance when you are talking to someone and the news channel is on at the same time, you may be listening to the person you are talking to but hearing the news in the background.…

“What is that!?” Earl said. Earl is 57 years old and has been living in his house for eight weeks. In five weeks something has ran underneath Earl’s rug. It has came after a week of living there and it disappeared until two weeks later. The first time it came Earl was working on an important job and it ran underneath the rug and knocked over his lamp that was beside his desk. “Ahhh!” Earl screamed, “What is that? Is it a rat? Is it a mouse?” Earl thought to himself “What could have that been?…