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Hearing is important for children to develop speech and language skills as they grow. In the past, hearing loss in children often went undetected until the child was around two years old, when it became obvious that the child wasn’t talking yet. Children learn communication...
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Tiny hair cells inside your inner ear help you hear. They pick up sound waves and change them into the nerve signals that the brain interprets as sound. Hearing loss occurs when the tiny hair cells are damaged or die. The hair cells DO NOT...
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Executive Summary We are connected to our surroundings by five senses: Sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing. Hearing is more than sounds, it is a biopsychosocial process. There are sounds, with specific features, that can damage our hearing causing Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL); a...
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Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SSHL) is a common problem which is a sudden deafness in the ear, usually in just one ear where the inner ear (cochlea) gets inflamed or swollen, this is because of trauma such as head injuries or impaired blood circulation. The...
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Hearing loss often goes untreated and those who do not seek treatment, often live lives that are not as great and beautiful as they once were. There has been numerous studies that show how having a hearing loss can lower one’s quality of life. Regardless...
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Argument Analysis This argument analysis takes a look at the article, Are you damaging your hearing without realizing it? (Crain, 2015). The article is about the controversy of headphones causing damage to people’s ears without many people even realizing it. Author Molly Crain provides evidence...
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Introduction: The general relationship between aging and hearing is one where aging over time will lead to the natural loss of hair cells in your ears. This will cause older individuals to not be able to hear higher pitched noises and sounds as well as...
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As an electrical device surgically implanted to assist recipients, especially who are suffering from profound hearing impairment, to access sound and achieve near-to-normal speech understanding by providing a sensation of sound in a relatively quiet acoustic environment, cochlear implants have always been controversial among the...
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“ Hearings aids are very interesting pieces of technology. The very first one looked like some sort of musical instrument placed inside the ear. Today, it is a small plastic device that can go unnoticed in front of those around you and be several magnitudes...
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Fifty years ago, there were no treatments for deafness and severe loss of hearing until Dr. William House first invented six channel electrodes cochlear implant and implanted in the first patient’s cochlea in 1964. Graeme Clark changed that completely since he first developed the cochlear...
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Sensory Modalities A sensory modality is a way of sensing, like vision or hearing. Modality in someone’s voice gives a sense of the person’s mood. In logic, modality has to do with whether a proposition is necessary, possible, or impossible. In general, amodality is a...