Audiologic Rehabilitation

Professional processes performed in collaboration with a client who has hearing loss to achieve better communication and minimize the resulting difficulties

Where the hearing loss occurs at each of the frequencies

Age at which a person got a hearing aid or a cochlear implant

Category of hearing loss in which a person has limited amounts of hearing loss

Category of hearing loss in which a person has extensive loss; they have the inability to use hearing to any meaningful extent for ordinary life purposes, primarily verbal communicaiton

Provides leadership for setting health standards and norms; developed the ICF model

Focuses on assessment (gathering information and data); follows initial auditory diagnostic tests

Focuses on management (helping or giving information); follows completion of all relevant aspects of CORE

The purpose of these is to maximize residual hearing and minimize communication difficulties

The difference between hearing threshold and the most comfortable loudness level

Hearing aid component that is used to enhance communication via telephone; minimizes acoustic feedback

Hearing aid style used with an ear mold or bone conductor with the speech processor in a box they can wear; for severe to profound losses

Hearing aid style that is used with a ear mold; all parts are hooked on the pinna; for mild to profound losses

Hearing aid style in which the tubing receiver fits in the EAC; for mild to severe losses

Hearing aid style that fills all or part of the concha; for mild to moderately severe losses

Hearing aid style that is not in the concha; for mild to moderately severe loss

Hearing aid style that cannot be seen from the outside because it is inserted all the way in the canal

Hearing aid style that is implantable which vibrates the ossicular chain; for moderate severe to severe losses

Hearing aid style that is implantable which vibrates the cochlea to stimulate hair cells; for conductive or mixed losses with atresia, eczema, ME malformations or chronic OM

Replaces the cochlear hair cell transmission of sound and stimulate the auditory nerve directly; for those who can not benefit from traditional hearing aids; for ppl with severe to profound irreversible sensorineural HL

An assistive listening device that uses radio waves to transmit sound to a user (one with a receiver); personal or soundfield

An assistive listening device that uses infrared signals to transmit sound to a receiver; supposed to be a clearer signal than FM systems

Communication strategy in which a communication breakdown occurs and a person is having to repair it; "can you repeat that please?"

Communication strategy used to help communicate in order to prevent a breakdown, set up the environment, sit in front of speaker and have speaker speak slower

What is the goal of audiologic rehabilitation?

Who are the primary providers of audiologic rehabilitation?

Providers of AR must possess an understanding and familiarity with:

The primary and most devastating effect of hearing loss is its impact on:

The primary objective of listening devices is to:

Which of the following is not a standard hearing aid component?

Adults with hearing loss may experience difficulty: