Hearing Loss

If You Are A Normal Ear Functions

Outer ear, middle and Inner is divided into three parts. Each chapter has an important role in hearing.

The external ear consists of the auricle and ear canal. These structures are sound, they tend to gather.

It is located between the outer middle and inner ear. Ear to the eardrum and three small bones (hammer, anvil, and stirrup) in the middle ear are found. These structures amplifies the sound waves and transmit them to the inner ear

The hearing and balance system in the inner ear fluid contains microscopic cells and nerve endings. The stirrup bone in the middle ear to the inner ear by the vibration of the sound waves transmitted in the brain, stimulating the nerve endings here and provides the formation of electrical signals that are perceived as sound.

Types Of Hearing Loss

Outer and middle ear transmit sound to the inner ear structures receives it. While conductive hearing loss occur in the outer and middle ear, inner ear diseases, nervous type (sensory-neural hearing loss occurs. If you are affected by both the middle and inner ear, a mixed type hearing loss.

Hearing decibel (DB) is measured in units of. Between 0-20 DB hearing levels are considered to be normal. The percentage expression of hearing loss in decibels as follows:.

• 20-25 dB – %0
• 30 – dB – %8
• 35 – dB –
• 45 – dB – 30 %
• 55 – dB –
• 65 – dB – 60 %
• 75 – dB – 75 %
• 85 – dB – 90 %

To differentiate hearing one syllable words score gives the ratio of understanding. Under ideal conditions the normal value -0 should be. This value noise is reduced.

Transmission Type Missing

Factors obstructing the outer ear canal, perforation in the eardrum, the middle ear due to ear infections and diseases of the bones occurs. They are generally reversible.

The patient's ear feels clogged or full. Generally your own voice speaks in a low voice heard on high. Patients with conductive hearing loss hear better in noisy environment. You may need to stop the movement of chewing to hear what is spoken. This type of impairment is usually correctable through surgery. Patients with conductive loss are not deaf, hearing or, where appropriate, surgery can almost always be provided with hearing aids.

The Nervous Type (Sensory-Neural) Lost

The disruption of blood circulation in the inner ear, the pressure of the fluid occurs as a result of increase or disruption of nerve transmission. The most common cause is the deterioration due to aging in the nerve endings. It is an irreversible loss though, it rarely results in deafness.

Patients with this type of loss often hear what is said, but have difficulty in understanding. The increase in sound intensity, usually does not have much benefit. Feel more comfortable in a quiet environment and often have difficulty talking on the phone. Since the loss is usually at a high frequency, which has a lower frequency should be able to better understand men's conversations. High pitched ringing the doorbell, the telephone may not be able to hear sounds such as the ringing of..

Hearing Loss In One Ear

Patients with hearing loss in one ear can perceive where the sound is coming from. The affected ear by sound, speech understanding, especially in noisy environments becomes more difficult. The transmission losses with a balance type of surgery is usually provided good hearing. In conductive hearing loss, hearing aids may be provided with this balance.

Treatment Of Hearing Loss

First, as a ear, nose and throat examination and a hearing test should be revealed with the type and cause of the problem and treatment should be planned accordingly.

Treatment options are curative, preventive, adapting, medical, surgical, or a combination of these may be. In the rehabilitation of hearing, lip reading, hearing training, speech training, hearing aids training can be done. The method to be selected according to the patient is determined.

If You Have A Person With Hearing Loss In Your Area

People with hearing loss to hear speech, understand and respond to the stop, look around and listen. Close to a number of factors that affect their communication skills. To better communicate with these people sees you and talking until the person with hearing loss may attract the attention of tapping if necessary. While speaking to stand at a distance of 1.5 to 2 metres is ideal. Talking at a normal speed, preventing background noise and provide additional tips on the topic of the conversation it will be useful to the person.

The major movements that must be made, or remote from another room to talk, walk away to talk directly in his ear, so to speak, to shout, close the mouth while speaking, a subject that is not well understood is to repeat the same sentences.

Lip reading: Persons with hearing loss frequently applied method. Most people start and develop without being aware of this method over the years. Since the normal movement of people who are accustomed to have acquired this habit, exaggerated mouth movements makes it difficult for the comprehension of speech.

Notice: Usually the relatives of people with hearing loss “when it suits him you hear the phrase” use. However, this is often background noise in the environment without appropriate distance and articulate with a person is the subject of negotiations under ideal conditions. Healing usually causes. People with hearing loss to understand speech spoken spend a great effort to capture the hints. They need to concentrate to hear.

Variable audio: For people who use the device noise or yelling severely uncomfortable, can be painful. Yelling at a person who doesn't understand what is spoken will not be useful, since decreasing the intensity of sound at the end of the sentence also makes it difficult to be understood.

Pronunciation: One should be careful when talking, but do not exaggerate. He will not understand very well even when it is talked about all the sounds the listener. Understanding mispronunciation makes them even more difficult.

Speech Rate: It is very difficult to understand fast speech. Each group should understand and unite them in a way of the brain as sound. Not hearing some sounds which makes it difficult to understand.

Conversation Tips: Impairment of the ability to understand speech, is the most important problem for people with hearing loss. The understanding of speech Speaker tips that will help you use she will be better understood. Helps with the same meaning using different words. If there are one or more words with the same meanings will be heard not understand will not affect that much.

When talking to a person with hearing loss, attention, correct pronunciation, and most importantly talk with sufficient volume and speed you need to be patient.

Lip Reading

The person with hearing loss to better understand the speaker is a skill that is developed. Even people without hearing loss to hear better in order to receive support from the sense of sight. The speaker's facial expressions, lip movements and gestures seeing facilitates understanding.

Enough distance to prevent lip reading or absence of light prevents the atrophy of the lips. Moustache, Smoking, Smoke also makes reading difficult.

Before speaking, it is useful to attract the attention of people with hearing loss. May appear similar in many audio lip, lip reading, and tries to understand what is speech according to the topic. The mouth that is created in “k, t, N, G, l” it is impossible therefore to be understood on the lips sounds like lip fill in the blanks in the conversation themselves, therefore they are often people who read the proper understanding of the topic of conversation, understanding each word individually becomes more important.

It helps us understand the changes in the rhythm of speech. Pause between sentences, the words on the suppression hearing-impaired include the influence on person's understanding.

People with hearing loss for a topic at a consistently high level of attention they try to be. Lip reading or using hearing aids should be taught by trained people.

Hearing Aids

By raising the tone is a device that transmits sound in the environment. They are used at the level of the main ear and the body are connected to those who are divided into two groups. Ear-level devices through the air by conduction and bone conduction devices that provide airway devices are two types of devices enabling the transmission, behind the ear, as the ear or in the ear canal three different types are used. Body type devices generally have the ability to increase the sound intensity in advanced hearing losses and are preferred.

Devices that are applied to both ears at the same time BI-aural hearing aids are called. Only use the device for use at the ear in both ears, according to their main advantages:

• Where can be heard the sound at the same intensity provide a balanced hearing in both ears
• To detect the direction of arrival of the sound to provide
• Sound understanding in a noisy environment increase the rate of
• Sound to increase the intensity of their capacity.

The type and degree of hearing loss affects the common benefit from the device. In individuals with the capacity to understand both the extent of Hearing Hearing Hearing Loss are reduced. Conductive hearing ability is not reduced in this group of patients, and patients with loss of benefits the most from the device. In patients with conductive hearing loss, the mean decreases by raising the sound device has also the capacity for always let you know even though you may not be able to understand what is heard.

Learning To Use A Hearing Aid.

The degree of loss of the device and the device characteristics and personal factors affecting the success of an adaptation of a program progressively with the duration of the study within the framework of the obvious benefits. People who started using it in certain stages of the hearing aid for the first time are recommended to start using it. These are;

• Should the device be used at home: upgrade the device to concentrate ambient sound to talk to any time. This application allows you to get used to the background noises.
• The device should be used only as long as it felt comfortable, discomfort is felt when they should be removed. The duration of use should be increased gradually.
• In just a few days until you get used to the device accelerates adaptation to use when talking with a person.
• All you need to hear the words and not try to understand
• It is normal to have an influence on the understanding of the background noise. It will take time to be able to distinguish between noise and speech.
• The sound was coming from the direction should be practical for you to understand. With his eyes closed while standing in someone else made in this study by following the speech from different places.
• The tolerance should be increased to loud noise. This study is done by increasing the sound while listening to the radio or TV, sound is reduced when it comes to a disturbing level, then again is incremented tolerance increases over time.
• To distinguish different sounds should be conducted. Prepare a list of different words and one letter only (table-deposit box, by name, etc.) from someone is asked to slowly read them in pairs. Meanwhile, lip movements are tracked and also after listening carefully, the words are tried to be differentiated individually.
• Someone reading aloud from the text to follow. Dec Dec stop by and read the last word should be controlled.
• Currently, the device only at home when using it, I slowly have spoken, the number of people at the same time should be increased. The whole conversation is difficult to understand. It will be beneficial to concentrate on the person who talks the most.
• In environments where the device is used should be diversified. Market, cinema, etc. in an increasingly crowded environments may be preferred. These environments should be increased over time with the ones starting with a tolerance of calm and less noisy.
• Lip-reading training must take. Very helpful to those who use the device in a supportive technique.

The use of the device on the phone is developed by practice. It will be beneficial to periodically run of an assistant phone.