An Assistive Listening Device—typically a personal FM system—for use in the classroom and/or at home. The benefit is that the background room noise is not amplified, and the parent or teacher’s voice goes directly to the child’s ear from any location, even from another nearby room.

Listening to environmental sounds, music and speech to practice recognizing and understanding what has been heard. In other words, the process of training a person to use their residual hearing to the best of their ability to recognize, identify and interpret sound.

An approach based on the principle that most hard of hearing children can be taught to listen and speak if they have early intervention and consistent training to develop their hearing potential. Also known as Oral Deaf Education.

See Aural Rehabilitation.

A general term that refers to teaching hard of hearing people how to adjust to, and compensate for, their hearing losses by making productive use of their residual hearing  in learning spoken communication skills through speechreading and auditory training. Training in the use of hearing aids is often included in this process.

The version of cochlear implant sound processor immediately preceding the Harmony sound processor from Advanced Bionics. It is a BTE style.