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- audiometry
- pure tone testing provides objective information about hearing acuity
- hearing loss
- condition which a child or adolescent is unable to detect or distinguis the range of sounds normally available to the human ear
- threshold
- earlies point at which a person can begin to hear
- air conduction
- the way most sounds are delivered to the cochlea and auditory pathway
- APD
- auditory processing disorders hearing losses resulting from damage to the processing centers of the brain
- Deaf community
- those individuals whose hearing loss is severe but who don't identify with the deaf community
- mixed hearing loss
- damage to both the conductive and sensorineural mechanisms
- bone conduction
- transmittal fo sound vibrations along the bones of the skull
- aural habilitation
- hearing loss among children and adolescents requires individualized intervention to achieve fluent communication in a manual or oral modality
- conductive hearing loss
- damage to the outer or middle ear with the inner ear and cochlea intact