Exam 13: Sensory Disabilities: Hearing and Vision Loss

Speech and language skills are the areas most severely affected by a hearing loss.

There must be a particular emphasis placed on the development of or students who have vision loss.

Describe how vision loss can be prevented or minimized.

An otologist is a medical specialist who

Describe why it is important to consider age of onset when defining hearing loss.

"Verbalisms" refers to

The number of children affected by greatly increased with the use of incubators for premature infants in the 1940s.

An audiologist is trained to

The approach teaches communication skills that use residual hearing, speech-reading, speech-training, reading, writing, and the manual system.

Compare and contrast the terms "deaf" and "hard of hearing."

Distinguish between the terms "blind" and "partially sighted."

The approach teaches communication skills that stress the use of sign language and/or sign systems.

is the act or sense of hearing.

Infections most commonly associated with congenital hearing loss are

The approach teaches communication skills that combine sound amplification with motor kinesthetic speech training.

Research on the intellectual characteristics of children with hearing loss has suggested that the distribution of IQ scores is similar to that of children with normal hearing.

What is a hearing loss greater than 90 decibels (dB) called?

The approach teaches communication skills that emphasize normal speech production, employ sound amplification, and discourage sign language.

Nikita has a conductive loss that doctors tell him might be improved by