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Aural Rehab
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may also be referred to as audiologic rehabilitation, auditory rehabilitation, hearing rehabilitation, and/or rehabilitative audiology
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Aural rehabilitation
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services provided by audiologists and speech-language pathologists
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Audiologic rehabilitation
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Services provided by audiologists
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Habilitation
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- Term when working with children because the skills are being taught for the first time
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Rehabilitation
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- Term for adults as it focuses on restoring a skill that has been lost.
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SLP Scope of practice
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- Evaluating receptive and expressive
language skills - Comprehension of language: oral,
signed or written modalities - Treatment of speech and voice
disorders
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Where does audiology and SLP converge?
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- Speech reading and training
- Development of communication strategies
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Main areas of AR:
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- Sensory aids and hearing loss
- instruction, demonstration,
coaching - perceptual training
- counseling
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Aural Habilitation is influenced by these factors:
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- Age of child
- Age of onset
- Age when the child was identified as deaf/hard of
hearing - Degree of atypical hearing
- Type of atypical hearing
- Age of child when first introduced to HAs or.
amplification.
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Why is hearing important?
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WE HEAR WITH OUR BRAINS
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Conducive hearing loss
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- Conductive hearing loss happens
when sound cannot travel efficiently
through the outer or middle ear. - Makes sounds seem quieter or muffled.
- Caused by ear infections, fluid buildup, earwax
blockage, or problems with the ear drum or tiny
bones in the middle ear.
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Sensorineural hearing loss
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- Sensorineural hearing loss is caused by damage to
the inner ear (cochlea) or the nerve pathways that
carry sound from the ear to the brain. - Affects both the loudness and clarity of sounds,
making it hard to hear and understand speech - Common causes include aging, noise exposure,
certain illnesses, or genetic factors. - Usually permanent and often managed with hearing
aids or cochlear implants.
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Mixed hearing loss
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- Problem both in the outer or middle ear (which
affects how sound is conducted) and in the inner ear
or auditory nerve (which affects how sound is.
processed). - Head trauma, genetic disease, virus/infection
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Tympanometry
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- Test of an individual’s MIDDLE ear function.
- Looks at the flexibility (compliance) of the eardrum
to changing air pressures, indicating how
effectively sound is transmitted into the middle ear
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REMEMBER, THE TYPE AND DEGREE ARE A PIECE OF THE PUZZLE YOU ALSO SHOULD CONSIDER:
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- Speech Reception Threshold (SRT)
- Speech Awareness Threshold (SAT)
- Word RecognitionScores (WRS)
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Audiologist scope of practice
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- Fitting and dispensing hearing aids (HA)
- Mapping cochlear implants (CI)
- Evaluating and dispensing hearing assistive
technology (HAT) - Treatment of balance disorders
