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- ABI
- ABR
- AC
- Acoustic Neuroma
- Acoustic Reflex
- Acoustic Room Treatment
- Acoustics
- Acquired Deafness
- Acquired Hearing Loss
- Acute Otitis Media
- ADA
- Adventitious Deafness
- Adventitious Hearing Loss
- Adverse Side Effect
- AGC
- AIED
- Air Conduction
- Air Conduction Pathway
- Air Conduction Threshold
- Air-Bone Gap
- ALD
- Alerting Device
- ALS
- Ambient Noise
- American Sign Language (ASL)
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- Amplification
- Amplified Telephone
- Amplifier
- Amplitude
- AN
- AN/AD
- Analog Hearing Aid
- Anvil
- Apical Region
- Aplasia
- ASL
- ASP
- ASR
- Assertiveness
- Assistive Listening Device (ALD)
- Assistive Listening System (ALS)
- Ataxia
- Atresia
- Attenuate
- Audio Coil
- Audio Induction Loop
- Audiogram
- Audiological Evaluation
- Audiologist
- Audiology
- Audiometer
- Audiometry
- Auditory Brainstem Implant (ABI)
- Auditory Brainstem Response Testing (ABR)
- Auditory Hallucinations
- Auditory Nerve
- Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD)
- Auditory Processing Disorder
- Auditory Reflex
- Auditory Rehabilitation
- Auditory Therapy
- Auditory Trainer
- Auditory Training
- Auditory/Oral Education
- Aural Habilitation
- Aural Rehabilitation
- Auria
- Auricle
- Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (AIED)
- Automatic Gain Control (AGC)
- Automatic Signal Processing (ASP)
- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
- Background Noise
- BAEP
- BAER
- BAHA
- Balance System
- Basal Region
- Basilar Membrane
- Behavioral Hearing Tests
- Behavioral Observation Audiometry (BOA)
- Behind-the-Ear Hearing Aid (BTE)
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)
- Bi-CROS
- Bilateral
- Bilateral Hearing Loss
- Binaural
- Binaural Hearing
- Binaural Hearing Aids
- Binaural Summation
- BOA
- Body Aid
- Bone Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA)
- Bone Conduction
- Bone Conduction Hearing Aid
- Bone Conduction Testing
- Bone Conduction Threshold
- Bony Labyrinth
- BPPV
- Brain Fog
- Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potential (BAEP)
- Brainstem Auditory Evoked Response (BAER)
- BrainStem Evoked Response (BSER)
- BSER
- BTE
- C-Print
- CA
- Caloric Test
- CAN
- Canal Hearing Aid
- CAPD
- CapTel
- Captioned Telephone (CapTel)
- CART
- CBT
- Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)
- Central Nervous System (CNS)
- Cerumen
- Ceruminosis
- Channel
- Cholesteatoma
- CIC
- CII Bionic Ear
- Cilia
- CIS
- Clarion (C-1)
- Clinical Hearing Loss
- Closed Captioning
- CNS
- Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technologies (COAT)
- COAT
- Cochlea
- Cochlear Implant
- Cochlear Nerve
- Cochlear System
- Coding Strategy
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)
- Communication Access Real-time Translation (CART)
- Communications Assistant (CA)
- Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties (CPS)
- Complete Audiological Evaluation
- Completely In the Canal Hearing Aid (CIC)
- Compression
- Computer-Assisted Note-taking (CAN)
- Concha Hearing Aid
- Conditioned Audiometry
- Conditioned Orienting Response (COR)
- Conditioned Play Audiometry (CPA)
- Conductive Hearing Loss
- Congenital Hearing Loss
- Continuous Interleaved Sampling (CIS)
- Contralateral
- Contralateral Routing of Sound Hearing Aid (CROS)
- Conventional Audiogram
- Conventional Hearing Aid
- Cookie-bite Hearing Loss
- Coping Strategy
- COR
- CPA
- CPS
- CROS Hearing Aid
- Cued Speech
- DAI
- dB
- deaf
- Deaf
- Decibel (dB)
- Desired Sensation Level (DSL)
- Differential Diagnosis
- Digital Hearing Aid
- Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
- Digitally-Programmable Analog Hearing Aid
- Diplacusis
- Diplacusis Binauralis
- Diplacusis Dysharmonica
- Diplacusis Echoica
- Diplacusis Monauralis
- Direct Audio Input (DAI)
- Directional Microphone
- Disarticulation
- Discrimination
- Dispensing Audiologist
- Disposable Hearing Aid
- Distortion
- Dix-Hallpike Test
- Dizziness
- Dominant Genetic Condition
- Drop Attack
- DSL
- DSP
- Dynamic Range
- Dysacusis
- Dysyncrony
- EABR
- Ear Canal
- Ear Impression
- Ear Infection
- Ear Tubes
- Ear Wax
- Earbud
- Eardrum
- Eardrum Perforation
- Early Intervention Services
- Earmold
- Echoacusis
- Educational Audiologist
- Educational Interpreter
- Eighth Cranial Nerve
- Electrical Auditory Brainstem Response Testing (EABR)
- Electrical Stapedius Reflex Test (ESRT)
- Electrode Array
- Electronystagmography (ENG)
- Endolymph
- Endolymphatic Hydrops
- ENG
- ENT
- ERA
- ESRT
- Etiology
- Eustachian Tube
- EVAS
- Evoked Response Audiometry (ERA)
- Expressive Language
- External Auditory Canal
- External Ear
- External Ear Canal
- Eyeglass Hearing Aid
- FDA
- Feedback
- Feeling of Fullness in Ears
- Fidelity 120
- Filter
- Fingerspelling
- FM System
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- Footplate
- Frequency
- Frequency Modulation System (FM)
- Frequency Response
- Full-shell Hearing Aid
- Functional Gain
- Functional Hearing Loss
- Habituation
- HAC
- Hair Cells
- Half-shell Hearing Aid
- Hammer
- Hard of Hearing
- Harmony
- HAT
- Hawthorne Effect
- Head Shadow Effect
- Hearing Aid
- Hearing Aid Compatible
- Hearing Aid Dealer
- Hearing Aid Dispenser
- Hearing Aid Evaluation
- Hearing Aid Trial
- Hearing Assessment
- Hearing Assistive Technology (HAT)
- Hearing Dog
- Hearing Ear Dog
- Hearing Evaluation
- Hearing Impaired
- Hearing In Noise Test (HINT)
- Hearing Instrument Specialist (HIS)
- Hearing Level (HL)
- Hearing Loss
- Hearing Loss Coping Strategies
- Hearing Screening
- Hearing Threshold
- Hereditary Hearing Loss
- Hertz
- HINT
- HiRes 120 (HiRes with Fidelity 120)
- HiRes 90K
- HIS
- HL
- HOH
- Homophene
- Hypacusis
- Hyperacusis
- Hypnagogic
- Hypnopompic
- Hypoacusis
- Hz
- IDEA
- Idiopathic
- IEP
- Impedance Audiometry
- Impedance Measurements
- Impedance Testing
- In-The-Canal Hearing Aid (ITC)
- In-The-Mouth Hearing Aid (ITM)
- Incus
- Individualized Education Program (IEP)
- Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
- Induction Loop
- Inflection
- Infrared System
- Inner Ear
- Intensity
- Interaural Pitch Difference (IPD)
- Internal Feedback
- Interpreter
- Intonation
- Intratypmanic
- IPD
- Ipsilateral
- ITC Hearing aid
- ITE Hearing aid
- ITM Hearing aid
- Labyrinth
- Large Vestibular Aqueduct Syndrome (LVAS)
- LDL
- Left-Corner Audiogram
- Linear Hearing Aid
- Lipreading
- Listening Strategy
- Localization
- Loop System
- Loudness
- Loudness Discomfort Level (LDL)
- LVAS
- Mainstreaming
- Malleus
- Map
- Mapping
- Masking
- Masking Noise
- Mastoid Bone
- MCL
- Meniere’s Disease
- Meningitis
- MES
- Middle Ear
- Mild Hearing Loss
- Mini-Canal Hearing Aid
- Minimal Auditory Deficiency (MAD)
- Minimum Masking Level (MML)
- Misophonia
- Mixed Hearing Loss
- MM
- MML
- Moderate Hearing Loss
- Moderately Severe Hearing Loss
- Monaural
- Monaural Amplification
- Most Comfortable Loudness Level (MCL)
- Multi-Memory Hearing Aids
- Musical Ear Syndrome (MES)
- Myringotomy
- Natural Environment
- Natural Language
- Neckloop
- Nerve Damage
- Nerve Deafness
- Neurologist
- Neurotologist
- Newborn Hearing Screening
- NIHL
- Noise
- Noise Induced Hearing Loss
- Noise Reduction Rating (NRR)
- Non-Linear Hearing Aids
- Normal Hearing
- Notetaker
- Noxacusis
- NRR
- Nystagmus
- OAE
- Objective Test Procedure
- Occlusion Effect
- Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA)
- Octave
- OME
- Omni-Directional Microphone
- Open Fitting
- Open-Platform Hearing Aid
- Oral Deaf Education
- Oral Interpreter
- Oral Transliterator
- Organ of Corti
- Organic Hearing Loss
- Oscillopsia
- OSHA
- Ossicles
- Ossiculoplasty
- Otalgia
- Otitis
- Otitis Externa
- Otitis Media
- Otitis Media with Effusion (OME)
- Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE)
- Otoconia
- Otolaryngologist
- Otolaryngology
- Otolithic Crisis of Tumarkin
- Otoliths
- Otologist
- Otology
- Otorhinolaryngologist
- Otorrhagia
- Otorrhea
- Otosclerosis
- Otoscope
- Ototoxic
- Outer Ear
- Oval Window
- Paracusis
- Paracusis Duplicata
- PDR
- PE tube
- Perforated Eardrum
- Peri-lingual
- Perilymph
- Perilymphatic Fistula
- Permanent Threshold Shift (PTS)
- Phoneme
- Phonophobia
- Physicians’ Desk Reference (PDR)
- Pidgin Signed English (PSE)
- Pink Noise
- Pinna
- Pitch
- Placebo
- Platinum Sound Processor (PSP)
- Play Audiometry
- Post-lingual
- Post-lingually Deafened
- Posturography
- Potentiation
- Pre-lingual
- Pre-lingually Deafened
- Presbycusis
- Pressure Equalization Tube (PE)
- Profound Hearing Loss
- Programmable Hearing Aid
- Proprioceptive System
- PSP
- PTA
- Pure Tone
- Pure Tone Air Conduction Audiometry
- Pure Tone Audiogram
- Pure Tone Audiometer
- Pure Tone Average (PTA)
- Pure Tone Bone Conduction Audiometry
- Pure Tone Screening
- Pure Tone Testing
- Pure Tone Threshold Audiometry
- Real Ear Measurement
- Real-time Captioning
- Receiver
- Receptive Language
- Recessive Genetic Condition
- Recruitment
- Relay Service
- Residual Hearing
- Residual Inhibition
- Resonance
- Reverberation
- Reverse-slope Hearing Loss
- Rotation Test
- Round Window
- Rubella
- Saccule
- SAS
- SAT
- SD
- SDT
- Selective Amplification
- Semicircular Canal
- Sensitivity Control
- Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SHL, SNHL)
- Serous Otitis Media
- Service Coordinator
- Service Provider
- Severe Hearing Loss
- SHL
- Sign Language
- Signal-to-Noise Ratio
- Signed English
- Silhouette
- Simultaneous Analog Stimulation (SAS)
- Ski-slope Hearing Loss
- Slight Hearing Loss
- SLP
- SNHL
- Sound Bore
- Sound Field System
- Speech Awareness Threshold (SAT)
- Speech Detection Threshold (SDT)
- Speech frequencies
- Speech intelligibility
- Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)
- Speech perception
- Speech processor
- Speech reception threshold (SRT)
- Speech recognition threshold (SRT)
- Speech Threshold (ST)
- Speechreading
- Spondee
- Spondee Threshold (ST)
- Squealing
- SRT
- SSEP
- SSHL
- SSNHL
- ST
- Stapedectomy
- Stapes
- Steady State Evoked Potentials (SSEP)
- Stetoclip
- Stirrup
- Sub-clinical Hearing Loss
- Sudden Deafness (SD)
- Sudden Hearing Loss
- Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SSHL, SSNHL)
- Suprathreshold Levels
- Swimmer’s Ear
- Syndromic Hearing Loss
- Synergistic
- T-coil
- T-switch
- TDD
- Telecoil
- Telecommunication Device for the Deaf
- Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS)
- Telemic
- Teletype (TTY)
- Temporary Threshold Shift (TTS)
- Text Telephone
- Threshold
- Tinnitus
- Tinnitus Masker
- Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT)
- Tonotopic Organization
- Total Communication
- Transient Spontaneous Tinnitus (TST)
- Transition
- TRS
- TRT
- TST
- TTS
- TTY
- Tumarkin, Otolithic Crisis of
- Tympanic
- Tympanic Membrane
- Tympanogram
- Tympanometer
- Tympanometry
- Tympanoplasty
- Tympanostomy Tube
- Tympanum