PSY345H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Deaf Culture, Hearing Aid, Conductive Hearing Loss
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Most people use combo of voices and gestures auditory process. Hard of hearing - sense of hearing is impaired but is somewhat functional individuals who have enough residual hearing that through amplification (help of hearing aids) they can process linguistic information age of onset. Prelingual loss - hearing loss before language is acquired (2 years of age) Postlingual loss - hearing loss after language is acquired. 9/10 kids have prelingual loss types of hearing loss. Air and bone conduction test - conductive impairment: cant hear the tuning fork through the ear but can hear if applied to the scull; sensory neutral: cant hear the tuning fork regardless of placement. Mixed hearing loss: both sensoryneural and conductive hearing problems. Central hearing loss - dysfunction in the cerebral cortex; problems are not due to inability to hear sound but not being able to discriminate and perceive the sound (problem is in the brain) prevalence.
