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Types of Hearing Loss

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Conductive Hearing Loss - The disruption or conduction of sound by obstruction or damage of the internal ear.

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Sensorineural Hearing Loss - Damage to the auditory nerve transmitters causing loss of sensation usually permanent and affects oral language.

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Mixed Hearing Loss - A combined hearing loss both Conductive and Sensorineural.

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Central Hearing Disorders - A dysfunction or disorder between the brainstem and the auditory cortex.

Effects on Learning

Students with an Auditory Impairment experience issues in social and intellectual development, speech, language, and struggles with achieving educational goals. Student with a hearing impairment may have a delay in achievement compared to their hearing counterparts. Because an educational environment consists of speaking and writing and making connections between the two subjects, having an auditory impairment makes it difficult to be successful in a general education classroom.

Teaching persons with an auditory impairment

Professionals such as Audiologists, Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, Speech-Language Pathologists, and Interpreters have the skills necessary to successfully educate a child with an auditory impairment.

Providing daily speech, language, and auditory training can maximize a student’s success rate. Professional techniques include the use of amplification devices, the use of visuals, captioned videos, sign language, finger spelling, and cued speech. This can also reduce language delay and help build the child’s confidence.

Needs of Hearing Impaired Students

Students with a hearing disability have several classroom needs that a teacher might have to address in order to ensure the student has every opportunity to learn.

They may need to sit closer to the front of the room in order to lip read or hear more clearly.

Need a quiet area in which to work on assignments.

Have the instructions repeated.

Voice recognition software on a computer .

Need real time captioning for audio videos used in the lesson.

Use an FM system that has a microphone/transmitter on the teacher and a receiver worn by the student.

Use sign language or have an interpreter present in the room.