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Getting parents involved is essential to supporting the development of a child with hearing loss. Counselling parents on the type and degree of hearing loss their child has and the effects of hearing loss is important. It is important to not focus solely on what the child cannot hear but also what the child can hear. Parents will need a lot of support in the beginning and it is my job as an audiologist to provide information and my professional advice. The goal is to help parents make the choices that are right for them and create positive outcomes for the child. It is necessary for parents to understand the benefit of amplification or intervention services so that everyone involved is working towards a common goal. Parents should also be knowledgeable of the services available to them and be prepared to advocate for their child. The school system provides supports for children with hearing loss and parents need to know how to obtain the services for their child. The audiologist can act as a resource for parents at any point as the child develops there will be new challenges. There is a partnership between the parent and the audiologist based on trust and a mutual understanding to provide the best care for the

The sound of your parents voice, hearing your favorite song playing on the radio, even knowing the sound of your own voice, these are just a few sounds that sadly many of us take for granted, and unfortunately many will never get to experience. Hearing loss affects about 10% of the Global population, with 124.2 million people affected from a moderate level to a severe disability. (WHO 2008)

Mary Jackson, 27 years old female, was evaluated at the University of Florida Speech and Hearing Clinic on October 10, 2017 because of her complaints of hearing difficulties, vertigo, and tinnitus. She reported the following: often asking people to repeat themselves, dizziness, balance complications, high-pitched tonal ringing in the right ear, and an increased difficulty in understanding conversational speech, especially in the presence of background noise, since becoming pregnant. Mrs. Jackson had a family history of hearing loss from her maternal side due to otosclerosis. She reported a hearing screening had been done approximately 10 years ago while in high school and results indicated normal hearing. The patient experienced drastic changes in her daily routine: discomfort, embarrassment, and social isolation. Her listening needs include communication with her newborn and family members, co-workers, and social networking.

Our New Ears are a group of parents of children with cochlear implants who provide information and support.

Vocational Planning in the Public School for the Hard of Hearing” by Wanda E. Yerkes places emphasis on the feelings and hardships that Hard of Hearing students are forced to endure at public institutions or Vocational schools. Ms.Yerkes discusses prevocational principles, the hearing aid, adjustment to the aid, emotional and social guidance, counseling and academic and vocational preparatory work. Yerkes believes that a lot of the problems they experience can be alleviated with proper training from jobs and schools. She also believes that giving children that are hard of hearing speech and language classes, along with auditory training can help them succeed in the workforce. However this statement is the reason behind some of the anger in

Without hearing screenings average diagnosis of permanent hearing loss is greater than 2 years old. Late diagnosis of hearing loss has been one of the contributing factors of reduced language skills in children (Durieux-Smith, Fitzpatrick, & Whittingham, 2008). Since the early 1980s, the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing has published recommendations and multiple position statements which support the use of newborn hearing screenings, to decrease the age of diagnosis of children with permanent hearing loss. By 2000, there was a federal law to support universal newborn hearing screenings (UNHS). The law also promoted early intervention for children with hearing loss, in hopes to improve speech/language abilities for children with hearing loss

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It was a dreary Tuesday afternoon when Mr. Thomas Moore arrived at the East Lake Therapy Outpatient Center. “What brings you here today sir?” the receptionist said. “An appointment with the Audiologist” he replied. About fifteen minutes later, a lady came out from a big side door. “Mr. Thomas Moore” she called. He got up and followed her into the clinic. She led him to a smaller room split into two sections. One side had a chair and desk with several machines on it. The other side was a booth with a window, which could only be entered through a thick door. Dr. Stacy led Thomas into the booth and sat him down. “So Mr. Moore, before I begin I want to take a look inside your ears with my otoscope”, she said. She looked in both of Thomas’s ears

As an undergraduate, I performed research on deafness, investigating hearing regeneration and unique auditory phenotypes. Based on my work, I was selected to be a Post-Baccalaureate Fellow at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders within the National Institutes of Health. This is a two-year program (07/14-07/16). I lead three projects focused on novel clinical therapies to prevent hearing loss from ototoxic drugs—drugs that cause hearing loss in hundreds of thousands of patients. There exists the need for therapies that protect the inner ear from ototoxic drugs without altering their therapeutic effects, and the focus of my research has been to help develop novel therapies.

Having immersed yourself in the text as a biblical, historical, and literary document, how do you think it felt to be one of the first hearers of the text in that situation?

    Keenan’s hearing began to degenerate at the age of four. Fortunately, he had surgery as a young boy and received cochlear implants, which enable sound to be transferred to the hearing nerves and allow him to hear. Cochlear implants allow Keenan to experience most of the world’s natural sounds. When he takes them off, everything is completely silent. Although his implants enhance his life tremendously and provide him an opportunity to hear again, they

Sound is not only for people who can hear. You can experience sound in different ways. For example. in passage number one, "Sound is All around Us" the author states that, "the energy is released in the form of vibrations" meaning you don't have to hear a loud sound or a low sound. And in passage number two, " Hearing Sound does not Require Ears" in paragraph, "Ears are not Needed for Hearing" tells you that, "the ears are specifically designed to receive sound vibrations that are emitted" this means that you ears don't necessarily use all sorts of sound to hear.

Moreover, other commonly used assessment tests to diagnose hearing disorders include the whispered voice, the Weber and Rinne tests. The whisper test is used to test the patient’s general hearing ability. The nurse should stand 1 to 2 feet from the patient, facing away from her or him and have the patient occlude the ear on the opposite side. The nurse will exhale fully and then whisper a random combination of three to six letters and numbers (e.g., 2, G, 7) and then ask the patient to repeat the whispered numbers and letters. Normally, the patient should be able to reaped 50% of the sound; the process will again be repeated with the other ear using different numbers and letters. On the other side, the Rinne and Weber tests use a tuning

This technique My Mum calls ‘selective hearing.’ She has said that me using ‘selective hearing’ is my choosing to be ‘ignorant’ inferring that being ‘ignorant’ is a bad thing to be doing but I do not mean to be ‘ignorant.’ I am often confused when a person is telling me something or when they are asking me a question. Sometimes I fail to recognise when a question is being asked of me, My Mum seems to want from me to recognise when a question is being asked of me every time.

Those not thoroughly educated in communication tend to confuse the terms “hearing” and “listening.” Although they appear to mean the same thing, utilize the same body part, and are both required for functional communication, there is a great difference between these two actions. Hearing involves the perception of sound using the ears, while listening is based upon giving attention to the sound being perceived. Additionally, because these concepts are different, there are also several different ways of improving hearing and listening. Thus, there are several differences between these two concepts, and it is important to signify these differences in order to practice effective communication.