Intro to Aural Rehab - Lecture Notes PDF

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Intro to Aural Rehab: Habilitation: goal is to develop skills that were never there; typically associated with children Rehabilitation: previously had skills and lost them, trying to get something back (regain skills that were once lost); typically associated with adults or older individuals Goal of Aural Rehab is to restore or optimize their ability to function normally in a particular activity Goal of Audiologic Rehab- typically associated with the diagnosis of hearing loss and use an assisting listening device Aural Rehab- refers to strategies to enhance communication with communication strategies Disability: the loss of function or the inability to perform an action Hearing Related Disability: loss of hearing that affects our performance in various situations or activities We can describe the disability with a biopsychosocial framework of factors: -biologically -psychological -social WHO: developed a set of descriptions for classifying various disabilities Framework is the international classification of disability and health: focus is how it affects the patient in their every day life -look at body structure and function: looking at the anatomy of the ear, looking at the structure and function that it serves -overall participation: considering the individual’s involvement in a life situation, do they participate in a conversation at the dinner table? -activities: the execution of a task or an action that the patient either wants to do, or needs to do -Limitation: the inability to complete that task as needed Bottom 2 factors: -Environmental and Personal Factors: affect the overall magnitude of the disability Who: Receives- elderly, children, everyone gets it that needs it; Who does services: Audiologists What: Tenitis management, hearing protection, auditory training (training them to listen and know what they’re hearing- perceiving and discriminating between sounds) and communication strategies (teach strategies of enhancing communication); informational and educational counseling; parent coaching; in-service training Where: schools, clinics, outpatient, home, doctor’s office, VA hospital Parameters of Hearing Loss: 1. Mild, moderate, severe 2. Pre-Lingual (pre-language- loss occurred before they learned language; birth-2); PeriLingual- loss occurs during language learning (2-5 years); Post-Lingual- developed basic language skills, something happens and they have a hearing loss (after the age of 5)

1. Post-Lingual: 1. Pre-Vocational: children in school (5-17 years) 2. Early Working: 18-44 years 3. Later Working: 45-retirement (64/65 years) 4. Elderly Population (65+ years) 3. Conductive Loss? Sensorineural Loss? Mixed Loss? 4. Progressive Loss- gets worse over a long period of time; Sudden Loss Degree of Impairment: Normal: 0-25 dB Mild: 26-40 dB Moderate: 41-55 dB Moderate-to-Severe: 56-70 dB Severe: 71-90 dB Profound: 90+ dB Audiogram: X-left ear air conduction Circle- right ear air conduction Red- right ear Blue- left ear Hearing Loss at 8000 Hz= high-frequency loss Hearing Loss at 500 Hz= low frequency loss Symmetrical Loss: same degree of loss in both ears Asymmetrical Loss: different degree of loss in each ear...