A Parent, Professional, and Consumer Guide to Understanding and Accommodating Hearing Loss
This highly informative and easy-to-follow animated Power Point presentation provides a complete overview of basic information about how hearing loss is defined, what are its consequences, communication options, and accommodation technologies.
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This highly informative and easy-to-follow animated Power Point presentation provides a complete overview of basic information about how hearing loss is defined, what are its consequences, communication options, and accommodation technologies. Those new to audiometric testing will learn how to understand the implications of audiogram results and the meaning of associated medical terminology. Various communication methodologies (e.g., sign language, speechreading) are explored and strategies offered for optimizing communication. Current technologies for television, telephone, alerting, and face-to-face interaction are explored. This presentation also contains an extensive resource section of consumer and professional organizations, information centers, religious organizations for the deaf, and much more!
Table of Contents:
Terminology
Audiology Variables
Language Development
Communication Alternatives
Educational Choices
Technological Solutions: Listening Devices
Technological Solutions: Alerting devices
Technological Solutions: Long Distance Communication
Technological Solutions: Television Access
Technological Solutions: Software Access
Technological Solutions: Speech to Text ⁄ Voice ⁄ Sign and Vice Versa
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