...In the movie Mr. Holland’s Opus an on going thread that significantly impacted me was seeing how two parents reacted differently to their child being diagnosed with 90% hearing loss. This was my second time seeing the movie; I had seen it one other time way before I had ever decided to become a CSD undergraduate. When I saw it the first time I paid little attention to the store line of having a deaf child and how it was a life-changing event for parents. Rather I paid more attention to the drama of Mr. Holland’s teaching career. Through out the whole time I watched the movie I thought about how important the roll of an audiologist is as a counselor to the family when there is a diagnosis of severe hearing loss at a young age. It is obvious when Mr. Holland is putting headphones on his pregnant wife’s belly that he wants his unborn child to have as much music appreciation for music as he does. We see Mr. Holland’s character struggle to accept that his son won’t ever be able to appreciate music in the same way as him. Before Cole is diagnosed with 90% hearing loss there are scenes that show Mr. Holland playing the piano and having fun with his son. As the movie progresses and Cole is diagnosed with the hearing loss, Mr. Holland realizes that he will never be able to share his passion for music with is son. Mr. Holland begins to distance him self from his son by focusing more on work, and music. Making very little time to learn sign language or focus on his son. A significant...
Words: 637 - Pages: 3
...Emily has a hard time hearing high frequency sounds, this means that Emily is losing her hearing. People who lose the ability to hear high frequency are usually suffering from an impairment of the inner ear. This first starts of with noiseinduced hearing loss, which is a form of sensorineural hearing. Sensorineural hearing loss results from dosage to the inner ear hair cells or auditory nerve, while induced hearing loss occurs when very loud sounds damage hair cells. One example of this is listening to loud music. These hair cells are very small, and also very fragile. Dead hair cells can never be replaced. Once they are gone, they can never be replaced. A study showed that was you are sixty-five years old, more than forty precent will be gone. Emily can not get a hearing aid because, hearing aids are no help in case of sensorineural hearing loss because auditory messages are blocked from reaching the brain, as of yet there is no cure for high frequency hearing loss. Emily can receive treatment, which focuses on improving hearing rather then restoring it. Many cases the auditory nerve is actually intact. Emily can act on her hearing loss by getting a Cochlear Implants. Its job is to bypass hair cells and stimulate the auditory nerves directly. I think that this will help Emily because if the auditory nerved is intact, it is possible for Emily to still hear and will not be forced into deep anxiety. But if in fact its not, then its nothing she can do to help herself. When Emily...
Words: 594 - Pages: 3
...It was easier to place these types of “folks” in intuitions and not deal with their needs. Understanding the deaf community comes through understanding the culture and the history that allows the deaf to have a “voice” and provide them with the necessary services that make the deaf more human. Through mental health, hearing assessments, and trauma, there is an understanding that even though they may not live in the hearing world, there are still apart of society. How they function as a community is important, as they too have a voice. Deafhood is described as “static”, not a medical condition; however, it is a process-a struggle that is endured by every child, adult, and family to explain themselves, and each other their own existence within their world (Hauser, O’Hearn, Steider, &Thew, 2010). Epistemology can be defined as the philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits to human knowledge. When dealing with deaf epistemology, there are many facets to which it can be understood and misunderstood. The authors discuss the visual learning process that a Deaf child goes through by being raised by either a Deaf parent or a hearing parent. A child that is raised by a Deaf parent can connect visually to their surroundings due to the parent being knowledgeable of the importance of visual communication. These context clues allow the deaf child to become aware of their surroundings and the expectations that are needed. The authors call this type...
Words: 3079 - Pages: 13
...Hearing Assistive Devices There are several types of hearing loss, which can lead to the need for a hearing assistive device. The types of hearing loss are as follows: Conductive hearing loss, Sensorineural hearing loss, Mixed hearing loss, Central and Functional hearing loss. Conductive hearing loss is when there is not enough sound getting thorough the outer and middle ear. Sensitivity to sound is diminished, but clarity is not changed as long as the sound is loud. Sensorineural hearing loss, sound is flowing normal through the outer and middle ear, but there is impairment in the inner ear auditory nerve (CN VIII) causing hearing loss. A problem with sensorineural lose is that sound is heard, but the person doesn’t understand speech. Mixed hearing loss is a combination of conductive and sensorineural. Central hearing loss is a problem in the central nervous system involving the inability to interpret sound. Functional hearing loss is caused by an emotional or psychological factor in which there is no physical finding of hearing loss (Lewis et al., 2011) Mosby and Elsevier (2009) (Crusse & Kent, 2013). To determine the type of hearing loss, type of hearing device needed and proper fit, there are different doctors with different levels of education a person can see. Choosing a correct hearing specialist is important. An Audiologist can identify and access hearing disorders. They can also select and correctly fit hearing aids. Audiologists can also program cochlear...
Words: 2020 - Pages: 9
...buds of smokers tend to be flatter. When you breathe in, the olfactory nerves send signals to the brain, signaling what you are smelling. Unfortunatley when you breath in cigarette smoke you are causing damage to the olfactory nerves causing them not to be able to register the aromas of foods and other items. Smoking can also result in weight loss by increasing the metabolic rate, decreasing metabolic efficiency, or decreasing caloric absorption. Situation B: Debbie is a 40 year old slightly overweight woman with Type II diabetes. She has high blood pressure and chronic high blood sugar levels. Why did her primary care physician insist that Debbie visit an eye doctor even though Debbie has never worn glasses? (list at least 2 different disorders that may be involved). (2 pts) Debbie may have cataracts or glaucoma. Situation C: Ron is a 47 year old Army veteran with a hearing impairment. Consider the pathways of hearing and answer the following questions: 1. What are the two major categories of hearing loss? (include the structure impaired in each case) (2 pts) Conductive Hearing Loss ( inner ear- cochlea) and Sensorineural hearing losses (outter ear/ middle ear- external auditory canal/ auditory ossicles) 2. Describe how the Weber & Rinne tests work to differentiate these two disorders. (2pts) For Rinne: The doctor strikes a tuning fork and places it near the base of your...
Words: 446 - Pages: 2
...One study compared fixed and Dynamic FM performance for hearing aid users, while the other made the same comparison with cochlear implant recipients. In the hearing aid study, conducted by Dr. Linda Thibodeau, both adults and children (ages 11 tol5) were used as subjects, and both objective and subjective measures were taken. The objective comparisons were conducted in a large classroom, with the interfering noises - ranging from 54 dB to 80 dB - emanating from four speakers located in the corners of the room. The FM microphone was placed six inches from another loudspeaker located in the center of the room. The goal was to create a situation where someone would talk into an FM microphone while the listener was surrounded by changing levels of ambient noises. For the subjective comparisons, the subjects tried both the fixed and the adaptive systems at home and during activities in a public aquarium. As expected, the objective results show no difference between the two systems at low noise levels. This is because the adaptive feature is not triggered until the background noise level exceeds 57 dB. But as the noise level increased, the speech perception scores increased with the adaptive system only, reaching a maximum difference of about 50 percent at the higher noise levels. Across all noise levels, the average difference between the fixed and the adaptive systems was about 25 percent. Subjectively, too, most or all (depending upon the activity) of the subjects preferred the...
Words: 662 - Pages: 3
...never worn glasses? (list at least 2 different disorders that may be involved). (2 pts) People effected by diabetes and high blood pressure are at high risk of developing diabetic retinal lesions and hypertensive retinal lesions (pathological damage). These two conditions can seriously affect the sight and might lead to blindness. Situation C: Ron is a 47 year old Army veteran with a hearing impairment. Consider the pathways of hearing and answer the following questions: 1. What are the two major categories of hearing loss? (include the structure impaired in each case) (2 pts) The two types of hearing loess are conductive and sensory. In conductive hearing loss the tympanic membrane perforated or the small bones of the middle ear is damaged, usually because infection of middle ear. While sensory hearing loss is because of nerve or cochlear damaged, usually because of toxicity or hereditary. 2. Describe how the Weber & Rinne tests work to differentiate these two disorders. (2pts) These are two testes used to differentiate between conductive and sensory hearing lost. Situation D: A rare (and unreal)...
Words: 348 - Pages: 2
...October 3rd 2011 ASL 101 Cochlear Implants What is a cochlear implant many people will probably ask when first hearing this word. A cochlear implant is an implanted electronic device, designed to produce useful hearing sensations, to a person who is deaf or hard of hearing. The implant is made of two parts. One part is the externally worn microphone, sound processor and transmitter system. The other part is the implanted receiver system that contains the circuits to receive the signals from the external part. This sends the electrical currents to the inner ear. Cochlear implants should only be used by profoundly dear adults or children who get little or no benefit from hearing aids. How the implant works is that it receives a sound from the outside environment, processes it and sends a small electrical current near the auditory nerve, these currents then activate that nerve, which then sends a signal to the brain. The brain learns the sound and then the person experiences hearing. Although it does not sound the same as it would to a hearing person. Some people say its sounds like a technological sound or easier a robot type sound. Some of the benefits of the implant are that adults often benefit from it immediately and continue to improve with of course the work that comes along with getting the implant. It make take years for him/her to be able to not be educated. Also you can be “normal” as many people say for which you can hear people talk, make a phone call, watch...
Words: 488 - Pages: 2
...area, I noticed the receptionist fiddling with his hearing aid. In the process, a call came in and would have gone unanswered if not for my intervention. This particular employee is a 20-year veteran of the company and could retire. He is well liked and seen as a fixture in the company. First choices, though, seem to be retirement or firing. Both choices seem to be drastic and more information is needed. RESEARCH The best research I could find comes from Jerry L. Yanz, PhD. Dr. Yanz is Vice-President, Education and Training, Micro-Tech Hearing Instruments, Starkey Laboratories, Inc. The following are excerpts from his report on hearing aids and their history. “In 1947, Sam Lybarger developed a solution to the problem of acoustic feedback that is generated when a telephone receiver is held close to a hearing instrument. Taking advantage of the inductive leakage from the phone's dynamic receiver, Lybarger placed a receiving coil in the instrument, thus providing an alternative transduction path for the phone output. For the first time, a person wearing hearing instruments could use the phone effectively without acoustic feedback. The ensuing 50-plus years have seen varying degrees of success with the telecoil. While the telecoil proved a boon to those who wore hearing instruments, recurrent issues have compromised its success. Some of these issues and their resolution are outlined below. The output of early hearing instruments in telecoil mode was often weaker than...
Words: 1265 - Pages: 6
...How hearing loss affects development of the mind James Garrett Excelsior College PSY235 Dr. Victoria Ferrara June 21, 2015 Abstract Hearing loss can have a tremendous effect on the cognitive development of human beings. Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory can be connected to this issue. Lev Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory can also be tied into the effects of hearing loss on development and the theory of mind is another theory that can help explain the why. Language development is one of the main reasons for a child’s mental growth and is also one of the main areas effected by a hearing deficit. There are many ways to combat the ill-effects of hearing loss including new technologies in hearing aids along with proactive parents, teachers, and healthcare professionals. How hearing loss affects development of the mind Pediatric hearing loss is not a low-incident disability with the educationally significant hearing loss being approximately 12 in 1000 children (Matkin & Wilcox, 1999). Anderson (2015) tells us that usually during the 24th week of pregnancy, an unborn baby begins to hear. Hearing is a vital means of interacting with the family and the world throughout life. A baby starts to distinguish sounds like human speech in the first months after birth. The foundations of language, both hearing and speaking, develop by age two. The development of language from the youngest age is directly tied to cognitive development, primarily affecting reading, learning...
Words: 2896 - Pages: 12
...April 30, 2012 Cochlear Implant Essay A cochlear implant is a surgically implanted device that provides electrical stimulation to the auditory nerve in the inner ear. The device has internal and external components. The external parts consist of a microphone, a speech processor, and a transmitter. The internal parts include a receiver and electrodes. The external speech processor captures sound, converts it to digital code that is transmitted to the internal electrodes, and finally, communicated to the brain for interpretation as sound. Good candidates for the cochlear implant have profound bilateral sensorineural hearing impairment and functional auditory nerves. Three groups of patients that have the greatest potential success include post-lingually deaf adults, pre-lingually deaf children, and post-lingually impaired people (usually children) who have lost hearing due to diseases such as meningitis. Tyler, Fryauf-Bertschy, Kelsay, Gantz, Woodworth, Parkinson (1997) confirm pre-lingually deaf children are excellent candidates as they obtain the implant during the time that the brain is developing and highly functional in adapting to sensory input. The cochlear device is implanted behind the ear where the surgeon will create a pocket in the mastoid bone for the receiver. The electrode array is then placed through the inner ear into the cochlea. After the healing process, which takes 1-4 weeks, the patient is fitted with the external parts and the implant is activated. The...
Words: 408 - Pages: 2
...provides.. by producing.. picks up what.. Lymph nodes- should be- if they are this may be .. * * * * * * * * * enlargment of lymph nodes is called.. PIH-headaches- mostly due to = * -evertyhing is= -pain is= -ocurrs with= * -lasts= -by= -causes= -pain is= -located= * -lasts= -pain is= -there is no= -located= bloody nose Bruit= sound like -due to= -which will= =and will= -use what part to listen= Crepitation/ TMJ syndrome= may indcate= TMJ= Causes of tracheal shift=it is maybe to due to * * * * * -is a = -what happens with the trachea= Hyperthyroidism= is the gland is= person is= weight= bowel movement= dieases= eyes= hair= feels= hypothyroidism= is lowers the- loss of- deficiency of- mostly in- person is- weight- feels- dieases- temperal artery should feel= should not be- can lead to if it is- thyroid gland is the must be- palpating for- if there is may indicate- enlargment of the thyroid will appear when.. neck ROM should not - if there is- carotid artery should not.. listen for.. look for.. may indicate.. hydrocephalus is caused by- acromegaly is due to bells palsy is affecting the parkinsons disease is decreses in it is a cushing syndrome is looks like brain attack is causes hashimotos thyroiditis is an mostly occurs in someone with.. mostly in.. fetal alcohlol syndrome is.. happens when.. effects the...
Words: 912 - Pages: 4
...Hearing Impaired Patients Paula Inman NUR 440 October 10th, 2011 Priscilla Aylesworth Hearing Impaired Patients Hearing loss is a common health issue that affects 10% of the work population as indicated by many international studies” (Bento & Penteado, 2010, pg 64). According to Healthy People 2020 three out of every 1,000 babies are born with hearing loss (HealthyPeople.gov, n.d.). As we age hearing loss is caused by colds, earaches, medications, head trauma, and the aging process. At Illinois Valley Hospice most of our patients are elderly, and we wanted to see how we can help the hearing impaired patient feel comfortable in their surroundings even if they have difficulty hearing. The Sample Group We took a three-month sample of our patient. In total we served 57 patients ranging from 44 to 99 years old. Thirty of the patients had no hearing impairment, 19 had mild impairment, five had moderate and three had severe. In hospice, patients get to the point where they no longer respond, but research shows that hearing is the last sense to leave as they are dying. The hospice staff noted the different ways each patient was could communicate. With the mild and moderate hearing impaired patients the staff just needed to talk loudly and look directly at the patient so they had the opportunity to read lips. It was more difficult communicating with the severe hearing impaired. Staff noted that they needed to make sure the patient had their hearing aids in; staff would...
Words: 910 - Pages: 4
...suffer from hearing loss. Sometimes it is classified as conductive hearing loss where for some reason the sound waves are being blocked; which can usually be fixed with surgery. The majority of people who suffer from hearing loss have damage to the nerves that carry sounds to the brain. That is called sensorineural hearing loss; and there are new innovative ways to help those suffering from sensoineural hearing loss. Hearing aids were invented to help damaged nerves carry sound by amplifying the sound with a microphone. That only helps those who are hard of hearing; if you amplify sound to a deaf person they still cannot hear it. The cochlear implant however, does not amplify sound; it uses electromagnetic pulses to stimulate cells in the cochlea that activate the auditory nerve. This process bypasses the damaged nerves that receive sound waves, which for the majority of the time are the cause of hearing loss. I have heard about cochlear implants for a while now and wondered about the difference in quality of hearing after surgery. The cochlear implant picks up sound and transmits it through electromagnetic pulses so is there a possibility that the sounds get distorted in the process. Since it is not the traditional method of hearing maybe the sounds are not the same either. The patient has to go through habilitation to get used to hearing and deciphering through noises to learn how to communicate but maybe the sounds they learn aren’t the same as the ones we are hearing. That is...
Words: 762 - Pages: 4
...were 4143 men aged 20-60 years who were evaluated for demographic variables, smoking/tobacco use and middle and internal ear diseases. Descriptive statistics and age adjusted logistic regression analyses were performed. Results: Among the 4143 men, 1739 (42.0%) were smokers or used tobacco. In smokers/tobacco users compared to non-users the age adjusted odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for chronic suppurative otitis media were 1.13 (CI 0.96-1.34), acute otitis media 1.16 (CI 0.82-1.64), suppurative otitis media 1.21 (CI 0.79-1.84), otosclerosis 0.97 (CI 0.52-1.33) (p > 0.05) and for overall middle ear diseases was 1.15 (CI 0.99-1.33, p = 0.05). For internal ear diseases the age adjusted odds ratios were for sensorineural hearing loss 1.12 (CI 0.92-1.58), 0.12 (CI 0.42-0.93) for vertigo and tinnitus and overall internal ear diseases were 0.97 (CI 0.77-1.22, p = 0.81). Among men 40-60 years there was a significantly greater risk for both middle ear (OR 1.73, CI 1.29-2.30) and internal ear diseases (OR 1.94, CI 1.24-3.04) (p < 0.001). Conclusion: Smoking/tobacco use is significantly associated with greater prevalence of middle and internal ear diseases among middle-aged men in...
Words: 3241 - Pages: 13
