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Noise Reduction In Hearing Aids
1,358 wordsRecently in a local hearing clinic, a clients concerns were discussed. Im afraid I wont like them. My brother in law bought two hearing aids, and he keeps them in a drawer in the kitchen. While the number of people dissatisfied with their hearing aids hovers around 50 %, the hearing aid industry is hard pressed to decrease the number of returns, and increase the average daily use of each aid. In order to accomplish this, hearing aid manufacturers must answer the most often heard complaint: It do...
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Central Nervous System Hearing Loss
1,719 wordsMeniere's disease is disease of the ear. There are two types of Meniere's, classical Meniere's affects both the hearing and balance systems and there's also Meniere's that affects only the Cochlea, which is the hearing organ and only the Vestibular system of balance. In the early stages of this disease many people experience sudden attacks of dizziness, nausea, ear ringing or tinnitus, and ear or head pressure. There may also be fluctuating or permanent, hearing loss. The dizziness they experien...
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Child With Down Syndrome People With Down Syndrome
1,266 words... n of excess hydrogen peroxide, a known cellular toxin that causes progressive cell damage (Whitaker 1997). It is widely accepted that a major disruption of the body's free radical defense system that results in excess production of potent free radicals such as H 2 O 2 would cause generalized progressive cellular damage resulting in both mental and physical disability (Whitaker 1997). Hearing loss occurs more frequently among individuals with Down syndrome than in the normal population. Becau...
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Hearing Loss Autistic Children
1,270 wordsIn general, autism is the developmental disability that prevents individuals from properly understanding what they see, hear, or otherwise sense. Approximately 3 to 5 out of every 10, 000 school aged children have some for of autism, and males with the disorder outnumber females with it by nearly 5 to 1. It is estimated that 1 in every 500 display some autistic characteristics (Williams, xiv). Autism is called a spectrum disorder because there is no one characteristic and it is different in ever...
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Unwanted Sound Effect The Physiological And Psychological
1,977 wordsHow does unwanted sound effect the physiological and psychological Outline: I) Research Question: a) How does unwanted sound effect the physiological and psychological performance differently than wanted sound? II) Thesis Statement: a) Wanted and unwanted sound have the same physiological effects on the human body but effect its psychological performance differently. III) Introduction: IV) Literature Review: a) The Human Ear b) How sound is heard / perceived by the body V) Development: a) Physio...
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Unwanted Sound Effect The Physiological And Psychological
1,875 words... the situation. Causes of stress are called stressors. These are outside forces that place unusual demands on a person's body or mind. In this case, the sound is playing an unusual and unwanted demand on the human ear, and the human body as a whole. Reactions to stress include impatience. Impatience leads to negative attitude, which lead to tension and anxiety. Your attitude towards the unwanted sound may also effect your level of stress. If you perceive the noise as unnecessary and preventab...
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Spend More Time Children With Disabilities
1,737 wordsThe information given me by various professionals who have repeatedly evaluated my daughter is the biggest issue that I face in my life. In order for me to resolve my issue I need to explore whether my issue lies with the professionals and the process of evaluation, or with me not wanting to accept that my child is disabled. My six and a half year old daughter, Malia, began to show signs of delayed development at age eighteen months. Her speech started to regress and there were also behavioral s...
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Spinal Cord Multiple Sclerosis
1,363 words... nt of hearing loss based on the amplitudes of the signals (fifth wave). With this information, physicians can decide how to treat the hearing loss and to what degree. A person who is completely deaf would exhibit flat-line responses. The BAEP can also detect lesions in the auditory cortex or any place in the auditory pathway. These abnormalities could also be attributed to tumors or acoustic neuromas, which are non-cancerous growths on the vestibulocochlear nerve in the brain. The BAEP is es...
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Couple Of Days Hearing Loss
1,174 words... ly I called the doctor and he ordered a series of test by the audiologist on the 3 rd floor. The tests were immediately performed and to make along story short, He was Deaf. Dr Simon began to interpret the results of the tests. She said he had a sensori-neural deafness. This is the result of problems with the cochlea (the sensory part) or the auditory nerve (the neural part). About 90 % of all hearing loss is sensori-neural. In most cases of sensori-neural deafness the hairs in the cochlea a...
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Running Head Sensory System
637 wordsRunning head: SENSORY SYSTEM Sensory System July 16, 2009 Sensory System Part 1 Cataract Cataract is a clouding of the lens in the eye. This clouding affects normal vision. In order to understand how does cataract formation represent a variance from normal anatomy and physiology, it is important to understand the lens and its functioning. The lens is a clear part of human eye helping to focus image or light on the retina (the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the human eye. In a normal eye w...
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Hearing Aids Communication Skills
2,607 wordsAural Rehabilitation Aural rehabilitation when it concerns children has more habilitation character rather than rehabilitative. Rehabilitation presupposes the revival of certain skills. In case with children they do not have any skills to revive and they need assistance to adapt themselves in society with their aural impairments. The communication is the main activity of our social existence and the losses of hearing may cause various negative consequences of the child development. Apart from th...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Low Birth Weight
2,039 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is an increasing problem in our world today. At least 5, 000 infants are born each year with FAS, or about one out of every 750 live births, which is an alarming number. In the United States there has been a significant increase in the rate of infants born with FAS form 1 per 10, 000 births in 1979 to 6. 7 per 10, 000 in 1993 (Chang, Wilkins-Haug, Berman, Goetz 1). In a report, Substance Abuse and the American Woman, sent out by the Center on Addicti...
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Hearing Loss High Frequency
315 wordsFiltered Speech Experiment Purpose The purpose of the filtered speech experiment was to look for three things. The first was to see / hear which frequencies can be eliminated from speech signal and conversely which frequencies can not in order to understand speech. The second purpose was to learn more about sound filters; and the third was to understand what it is like to experience hearing loss. Instrumentation The instruments we used during this experiment were: 1) Low pass filter of the Coulb...
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Hearing Loss Paying Attention
1,121 wordsThe ear is the organ of hearing and balance in vertebrates. The ear converts sound waves in the air, to nerve impulses which are sent to the brain, where the brain interprets them as sounds instead of vibrations. The innermost part of the ear maintains equilibrium or balance. The vestibular apparatus contains semicircular canals which in turn balance you. Any movement by the head, and this apparatus sends a signal to the brain so that your reflex action is to move your foot to balance you. The e...
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Hearing Loss Hearing Impaired
2,199 wordsBeing deaf is a handicap that afflicts millions of people around the world every year. Hearing loss can result from any number of afflictions that can affect the outer, middle, or inner ear. The range of hearing loss can also vary from mild to severe. The ear is made up of the outer, middle and inner ear. The outer ear consists of the auricle, the external auditory canal and the lobe. The outer ear helps to funnel sound and noise into the middle ear. The middle ear consists of the eardrum and th...
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Speech And Language Socially Acceptable
1,914 wordsLanguage acquisition is the process of learning a native or a second language. Although how children learn to speak is not perfectly understood, most explanations involve both the observation that children copy what they hear and the inference that human beings have a natural aptitude for understanding grammar. Children usually learn the sounds and vocabulary of their native language through imitation, and grammar is seldom taught to them; that they rapidly acquire the ability to speak grammatic...
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Hearing Loss Child
1,291 wordsThe nature, causality, assessment, prevention, accommodation, and my personal reflection of the hearing loss will be discussed in my paper. I. Nature of the Exceptionally: According to Gallaudet University, approximately 1 of every 1, 000 infants is born deaf while 6 of every 1, 000 are born with some degree of hearing loss. Permanent hearing loss at birth annually affects 24, 000 infants in the USA. In other words, 6 infants per 1, 000 will have a hearing loss in a least one ear that will affec...
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Spend More Time Children With Disabilities
1,755 wordsThe Evaluation And Labeling Of Children WithThe Evaluation And Labeling Of Children With Disabilities The Evaluation and Labeling of Children with Disabilities The information given me by various professionals who have repeatedly evaluated my daughter is the biggest issue that I face in my life. In order for me to resolve my issue I need to explore whether my issue lies with the professionals and the process of evaluation, or with me not wanting to accept that my child is disabled. My six and a ...
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