From: Study Guide for Hardman, Drew, and Egan’s Human Exceptionality, Society, School, and Family, Seventh Edition prepared by Keith W. Allred, Nevada Department of Education

These are important terms you should know from Chapter Fourteen.

a. audition                b. eustachian tube             c. ossicular chain                d. cochlea

e. Corti's organ        f. vestibular mechanism    g. hertz                                h. deaf

i. hard-of-hearing    j. prelingual losss               k. postlingual loss          l. conductive loss

m. sensorineural loss          n. mixed loss

________ Three small bones.

________ Cycles per second.

________ Functional use of residual hearing.

________ Area containing semicircular canals that control balance.

________ Organ that lies in front of the vestibule.

________ The act or sense of hearing.

________ Condition in which hearing cannot be used for acquiring new information.

________ Organ that equalizes air pressure on the ear drum with outside air pressure.

________ Organ that translates vibration into nerve impulses.

________ Loss of volume.

________ Loss from conductive and sensorineural losses.

________ Loss prior to the age of two.

________ Loss that occurs after speech development.

________ Loss from an abnormal sense organ and a damaged auditory nerve.

Here are more to help you learn the material.

o. audiologist             p. otologist            q. audiometer           r. sign language

s. finger-spelling        t. otosclerosis        u. tinnitus                v. atresia

w. fenestration           x. stapedectomy     y. myringoplasty     z. cued speech

aa. closed-caption television       bb. C-print

cc. telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD)

dd. teletypewriter and printer

________ Condition in which the stapes is unable to function properly.

________ Reconstruction of the ear drum.

________ Replacement of a fixed stapes with a prosthetic device.

________ Impairment suffered by victims of otosclerosis.

________ Major cause of congenital conductive disorders.

________ Process that creates a new opening in the ear.

________ Communication system combining hand signals and speech reading.

________ Technology that converts typed letters into an electric signal through a modem.

________ Device used to detect a person's response to sound stimuli.

________ Technology that uses line-21 system.

________ Computer system providing real-time translations of the spoken word.

________ Physician concerned with the hearing organ and its diseases.

________ A language consisting of hand movements that communicate whole words.

________ Specialist concerned with the sociological and educational impact of a hearing loss.

________ Technology that sends, receives, and prints messages.

________ Manual communication in which each letter of a word is formed.

Reflect

Here's another review opportunity.

a. violin string      b. external ear      c. middle ear         d. inner ear

e. ASL                  f. bicultural-bilingual approach         g. conductive loss

h. cerebral cortex dysfunction        i. auditory approach

j. oral approach                               k. manual approach

________ System that involves amplified sound and residual hearing.

________ System that uses signs.

________ Sign language that is not a form of English.

________ Central auditory problem.

________ Source of sound waves.

________ Cochlea, Corti's organ, vestibular mechanism.

________ Belief that ASL is the primary language.

________ Peripheral auditory problem.

________ System that involves amplified sound, residual hearing, speech reading, writing, and motokinesthetic speech training.

________ Auricle, pinna, and meatus.

________ Hammer, anvil, and stirrup.

Fill in the blanks.

Although air is the most common carrier, __________ can also be carried by metal, water

or other substances.

The __________ collects sound waves and funnels them into the ear canal.

Age of onset is critical in determining the type and extent of ___________ necessary to

minimize the effects of a hearing loss.

The majority of people with a hearing loss are able to use ______________ as the primary mode for language acquisition.

An _____________ evaluation is intended to measure the degree of hearing loss in an

individual.

The causes of __________ percent of all hearing losses are unknown.

A prenatal disease known as ___________ causes destruction of the capsular bone in the middle ear.

Prevention of hearing disorders is a primary concern of a _________________specialist.