Hearing

1
Hearing Lifespan

• Or Growing up with a hearing loss

2
How to raise a Hard of Hearing Teen (Wallace et
al., 2004)

• Family of a deaf child
• Over 90 are not deaf, do not sign
• What language to use?
• Oral/Auditory
• Benefit Inclusion hearing community
• Negative Exclusion Deaf community
• Mixed Oral/Sign
• Benefit Partial inclusion hearing/Deaf community
• Negative Inconsistent language use
• Sign only (deaf/sign-fluent parents)
• Benefit Inclusion Deaf community
• Negative Exclusion hearing community

3
Language Power

• Most effective
• Oral/Auditory Sign only
• Better Mental health/language development
• Mixed Oral/sign
• Inconsistent exposure
• Exclusion within schools
• Difficulty in both hearing/non-hearing
  communities

4
Mainstream Schooling (Kent, 2003 Krever
Ellen, 2003)

• Mainstream schooling
• Less depression/loneliness
• Hard of hearing, unaware boys
• Greater enthusiasm for school, teachers
• Level of Satisfaction
• Ability to form intimate relationships
• Loneliness
• Level of hearing loss
• Language Ability
• Correlate with intelligence, coping strategy
  effectiveness
• Teacher understanding, facilitation
• ½ positive experience, 1/3 dissatisfied

5
Life after high school

• Did you learn to read?
• Close to 20 HS dropout with Hard of Hearing (US
  DoE)
• 25 read at poorer than 2nd grade level
• Healthy hearing 20 poor readers
• Expectation level
• Mainstream class for college prep
• Little or no vocational training
• Gallaudet University
• Sign-language based University instruction (ASL)

6
Visual ability with deafness (Rettenback et al.,
1999)

• Is there visual compensation?
• Plastic cortex re-appropriation of cortical
  space to other modalities
• Structural divisions
• Physiological specializations
• Little evidence of compensation
• Improved visual attention in adulthood
• Faster visual search with high attention load
• Multi-feature search
• Children do not show an advantage
• Slowed reaction times

7
TLA 4 Listening to Music (LTM)

• Why is music structured the way it is?
• Ingredients
• Piano, multiple noise makers or drums
• Activity
• Play one random sound as musically as possible
• Play 6 random sounds as musically as possible
• Play 2 random sounds as musically as possible
• Which was the most pleasing? Which sounded the
  least like music?

8
Hearing loss in middle age

• Noise exposure in the workplace
• 8 Hours of 85 dBA (Canada, US)
• Induce Temporary Threshold Shift (TTS)
• Sensitivity and adaptation
• Audiogram annuals
• 10 dB HL shift better protection
• Will cause hearing loss if repeated exposure
• (Walkman up to 112 dBA)
• Max allowed 90 dB SPL over 8 hours
• 140 dBAwith protection
• High risk
• Truck drivers, factory workers, military
• Teachers
• Fastest growing