HEARING

LOSS AND
VISUAL
Resources:
IMPAIRMENT
S Resources:
Arizona Commission for the Dead
and Hard of Hearing (ACDHH)

Understanding Hearing Loss Valley Center of the Deaf (VCD)

Cochlear Implants: Arizona Technology Access

A cochlear implant is an
electronic medical device that
works with the damaged parts
of the inner ear (the cochlea)
in order to provide sound
signals of the brain.
Program (AzTAP)
Arizona Center for the Blind and
Visually Impaired (ACBVI)
Southern Arizona Association for
the Visually Impaired (SAAVI)

Cochlear implants are different References:

from hearing aids, in they do
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not amplify sound, but, rather,
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shown that people with
cochlear implants achieve an
average of 80% sentence
understanding, compared with
10% sentence understanding
for hearing aids.

Allows them to have

conversations with people
across meeting tables, in
restaurants and other crowded

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10 Things About
Hearing Loss and
Visual
Impairments
Hearing Impairments:
1. Hard of Hearing: hearing
loss in the 20 to 70 decibel
range, benefits from
amplification, and
communicates primarily
through speaking.
2. Deaf: hearing loss 70 to 90
decibels or greater and be
able to use hearing even
with amplification as
their primary means for
developing language.
3. There are four separate
causes that could cause
hearing loss which are
present at birth it is considered a
congenital loss, while if it occurs
after birth, it is considered an
acquired loss.
4. Roughly 57% of students
with a hearing impairment
spend over 80% of their
time in a general education
setting.
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5. Using a visual technique to
create direct
communication is important
and will enable a better
education for the student.
6. The IEP team would be
quite large, consisting of
peers, special and general
educators, family,
paraprofessionals, speech-
language pathologist and (if
applicable) the students
American Sign Language
Visual Impairments:
7. Vision Impairment: an
impairment in vision, that
even with correction,
adversely affects a childs
educational performance.
The term includes both
partial sight and blindness.
8. Blind: a clinical
measurement of visual
acuity.
9. Congenital visual
impairment: occurs at birth
or, in the case of
blindness, before visual
memories have been
established. This is due to
an event that happens
during the development of
the embryo, at or
immediately after an
infants birth, or at any
time during development.
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postlingual causes. If the
loss is
cochlear implant specialist.
10.Adventitious visual
impairment: having vision
then losing it. This is a loss
result of heredity condition
that manifest itself.