Rehabilitation Sciences 3061A/B Lecture 3: Lecture 3: CSD
12 May 2017
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Impairment in ability to: receive, send, process, comprehend. Assessment of hearing across the lifespan: assess impairment. Impairment: loss of structure or function: behavioural and physiological techniques to assess impairment, acoustic measures to assess environment. Provide (re)habilitaion: assess disability and handicap, disability: functional consequences of impairment. Handicap: psychosocial consequences: prosthetics and assistive technologies, rehabilitation. Deaf with a capital d are people who identify themselves as culturally deaf, and have a strong deaf identity. The big d deaf tend to have attended schools/programs for the deaf, while the small d tend to have been mainstreamed and/or never attended a school for the deaf. When writing about deafness, many writers will use a capital d when referring to aspects of deaf culture, and a lower case d when speaking solely about the hearing loss. Deaf with a little d simply means unable to hear. Classification: type and severity of hearing impairment: 2. Central: auditory nerve (central portion, central auditory system: brainstem to cortex.
