EC chapter 10 and 11

those with profound hearing loss who cannot understand sounds with or without hearing aids

those with hearing losses that impair their understanding of sounds including communication- profit from listening

What does ASL stand for?

Who is often creditted for being the father of education for the deaf in the US?

a language that uses manual communication signs, has all the elements of other languages and is not parallel to English in either structure or word order

What are the two general types of hearing loss?

blockage or damage to the outer or middle ear that prevents sound waves from traveling to the inner ear

damage to the inner ear or the auditory nerve cause the problem

What are the 5 different levels of hearing loss?

how much functional hearing the person has

a person who becomes deaf before they learn to speak and understand language

What percent of deaf children and youth are preligually deaf?

someone who developed profound hearing loss after they already learned to speak and understand language

being born Deaf to Deaf parents

What does CODA stand for?

manual communication translation of English

as a general rule of thumb, as the degree of hearing loss increases what decreases?

over half of the people with hearing problems are over what age?

What are the four most common known causes for child's deafness and hearing impairment?

help people with hearing losses by increasing the amplification of sounds in the environment, including others' speech

assistive device that amplifies sounds but is not surgically implanted

what are the four different kinds of hearing aids?

automatically adjust volume by amplifying sounds only to the degree necessary to compensate for the loss at each frequency of sound. also reduce background noise

surgically implanted devices that use a small speech processor and microphone to detect sound and then send electrical signals to the implanted receiver/stimulator

what are the two qualities of sound that are measured in the assessment process?

What is frequency of sound measured in?

What is sound intensity measured in?

a specialist in the assessment of hearing abilities?

an instrument that produces sounds at precise frequencies and intensities

What are the 4 different approaches to delivering instruction to a deaf student?

a form of manual communication, different from ASL, assigns each letter of teh alphabet a sign

senses that provide us with information outside our bodies and examples of them

causes visual disabilities ranging from mild visual loss to blindness in surviving infants

how well a person can use sight?

how well a person can see at various distances

the width of a person's field of vision

severe limitation in peripheral vision

the amound of vision they have left

What are the two subgroups of those with visual disabilities?

use sight to learn, but their vision disabilities interfere with daily functioning

the person uses touch and hearing to learn and does not have functional use of sight

the term used by the federal government for this purpose

blindness at birth or during infancy

blindness occuring after the age of two

what percentage of students with visual disabilities have sufficient functional vision ot read the standard print

a coded system of dots embossed on paper so that individuals can feel a page of text

the mental map that people have of their surroundings

the ability to travel safely and efficiently from one place to another

what is the percentage of blind people who are children?

How many children with a visual disability also have another disability along with it?

what three categories can visual input devices be put in?

the system for testing acuity when the individual cannot actively or reliably participate in visual assessment

test used to test visual acuity developed in 1862

What is a commonly used accommodation for students with disabilities?