See Speech-Language Pathologist.

A hearing loss ranging between 16 and 25  decibels (dB).

The shape of your hearing loss as displayed on your audiogram. If you have a ski-slope hearing loss, your low frequency hearing is normal or near normal. Your hearing loss quickly drops to profound by the mid to high frequencies. It looks like a steep ski-slope from the left side of your audiogram.

A software speech strategy for running cochlear implants. The SAS speech strategy feeds current to all of the electrodes all the time, thus giving continuous stimulation along the entire length of the electrode array. This is an analog stimulation, meaning that the current levels at each electrode are smoothly increased or decreased rather than switched […]

An flattened coil of wire that looks like BTE hearing aid that a “steam roller” rolled over, placed behind the ear and used with a hearing aid equipped with a telecoil. It works similar to a neckloop or room loop.

A manual system of communication by which concepts and language are represented visually through hand movements, gestures and facial expressions rather than spoken words. In the United States and Canada, the most common signed language is American Sign Language (ASL). Most hard of hearing people that learn some sign (not that many do in the first […]