A disorder of auditory processing resulting from disease, trauma, or abnormal development of the auditory system in which some of the understanding or clarity (not volume) of sound is lost within the brain or nerve pathways leading to the brain.
Auditory/Oral Education
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.
Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD)
A term used to describe a pattern of symptoms in which behavioral or ABR measures suggest significant hearing loss while measures of cochlear function such as otoacoustic emissions appear normal. More technically, a term that describes a pattern of abnormal findings for a number of audiometric measures—e. g., auditory brain stem responses (ABR), pure-tone and speech audiometry, and/or […]
Auditory Nerve
(AWE-dih-tore-ee) The eighth cranial nerve that carries impulses (information) between the cochlea and the auditory cortex in the brain.
Auditory Hallucinations
Hearing voices, singing, music or other phantom sounds. These sounds may be psychiatric (mental illness) such as caused by schizophrenia. Furthermore, they may be caused by more than 600 different drugs–especially psychotropic drugs–that produce auditory hallucinations as a side effect. However, for hard of hearing people, who experience non-psychiatric auditory hallucinations, is an auditory system […]
Auditory Brainstem Response Testing (ABR)
A test that can be used to assess auditory function in infants and young children using electrodes on the head to record electrical activity from the auditory (hearing) nerve. More technically, a hearing test that measures the neurological responses of the auditory nerve and brainstem to a series of clicking sounds. Basically, it measures the […]