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2. Ohio School for the Deaf - Wikipedia

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   The Ohio School for the Deaf is a school located in Columbus, Ohio.It is run by the Ohio Department of Education for deaf and hard-of-hearing students across Ohio.It was established on October 16, 1829, making it the fifth oldest residential school in the country. [1]

3. Hearing test - Wikipedia

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   A complete hearing evaluation involves several other tests as well. [5] In order to determine what kind of hearing loss is present, a bone conduction hearing test is administered. In this test, a vibrating tuning fork is placed behind the ear, on the mastoid process. When the patient can no longer feel/hear the vibration, the tuning fork is ...

4. Audiometry - Wikipedia

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   A pure tone audiometry hearing test is the gold standard for evaluation of hearing loss or disability. [medical citation needed] Other types of hearing tests also generate graphs or tables of results that may be loosely called 'audiograms', but the term is universally used to refer to the result of a pure tone audiometry hearing test.

5. Speech–language pathology - Wikipedia

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   Speech–language pathology (a.k.a. speech and language pathology or logopedics) is a healthcare and academic discipline concerning the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of communication disorders, including expressive and mixed receptive-expressive language disorders, voice disorders, speech sound disorders, speech disfluency, pragmatic language impairments, and social communication ...

6. Audiometrist - Wikipedia

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   In the UK and Ireland Audiometrists generally differ from Audiologists in that they do not require or hold an Academic Degree or Doctorate in Audiology. Audiometrists are certified under the British and Irish Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists, the Health and Safety Executive (UK and Ireland) and the Health and Safety Authority (Ireland), and the time period of their training is generally ...

7. Noise-induced hearing loss - Wikipedia

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   [138] [139] Annual audiological evaluations are recommended to monitor any changes in a patient's hearing and to modify hearing-aid prescriptions. A systematic-review conducted by the American Academy of Audiology Task Force On the Health-Related Quality of Life Benefits of Amplification in Adults found the use of hearing aids to increase ...

8. Audiology - Wikipedia

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   Audiology in Turkey started in 1968 as an audiology master's degree program at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ear, Nose and Throat. The program, which was carried out as Audiology until 1989, has been revised since this year and continued as "Audiology and Speech Disorders" Master's and Doctoral education.

9. Visual reinforcement audiometry - Wikipedia

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   Visual reinforcement audiometry (VRA) is a key behavioural test for evaluating hearing in young children. [1] [2] First introduced by Liden and Kankkunen in 1969, VRA is a good indicator of how responsive a child is to sound and speech and whether the child is developing awareness to sound as expected.