C_S_D 4340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Audiology, Otorhinolaryngology, Hearing Aid
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Interdisciplinary collaboration and public advocacy: both: collaborate on multidisciplinary team, in-service, parent education, public law advocate, referral to consumer organizations. Hearing conservation/acoustic environments: slp"s: appropriate environmental conditions, describe effects of environmental influences, periodic hearing screening for noise exposure, aud"s: programs for prevention of hearing loss, hearing protection devices and noise abatement, monitoring effects, measure and evaluate environmental conditions. Candidacy for hearing aids: audiogram is only one factor. Common myths about hearing loss and hearing aids your hearing loss cannot be helped hearing loss affects only old people and is merely a sign of aging. 13. if i had a hearing loss, my family doctor would have told me. 14. the consequences of hiding hearing loss are better than wearing hearing aids. 16. only people with serious hearing loss need haering aids. I"ll just have some minor surger like my friend did, and my hearing will be okay. 20. hearing loss is normal for my age.