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Speech Disorders II

Speech Disorders II. Audiometry Coming Later Paperette Due TODAY. ‘Hearing’ Speech with Dyslexia. Traditional dyslexia Normal intelligence & sensory ability Difficulty Reading, Writing & Spelling Visual dysfunction New View on Dyslexia (Wallace & Flowers, under review)

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Speech Disorders II

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  1. Speech Disorders II Audiometry Coming Later Paperette Due TODAY

  2. ‘Hearing’ Speech with Dyslexia • Traditional dyslexia • Normal intelligence & sensory ability • Difficulty Reading, Writing & Spelling • Visual dysfunction • New View on Dyslexia (Wallace & Flowers, under review) • Multisensory matching difficulties • Exp: Which of two flashes occurred first • With/without coincident ‘beep’ • Change latency of visual flash relative to beep 50 – 400 ms • Result: Dyslexics performance is enhanced over greater latencies (up to 350 ms) • Disturbed multisensory matching

  3. It’s not a tumor… • Symptoms • Buzzing & ringing • Poor balance • Fullness • Poor speech discrimination • Population • Women • Middle Aged • Multiple generations of tumors • Diagnosis • Acoustic Neuroma (neurofibromatosis 2) • Benign tumors grow along the auditory nerves • Prohibits signals from cochlea to brain

  4. Capping Hearing • Symptoms • Normal tympanic response • Normal thresholds • Poor Speech reception threshold • Fluctuating hearing loss • Population • Jaundiced babies • Premature births • Diagnosis • Auditory Neuropathy • Auditory nerve problems • No cochlear or conductive difficulty • Hearing loss may be progressive • May self-resolve (by age 2) • May benefit from cochlear implant

  5. Helen Keller “Deafness cuts one off from people, whereas blindness cuts one off from things”

  6. Profile of a Partially Deaf Person • Early hearing loss • Spoken language, reading • Early diagnosis to facilitate development • Mixed diagnoses common • Intelligence, attention deficit or hearing loss • Psychosocial ramifications – communicative disorder • Anger & introversion • Lack of empathy • Inadequate impulse control • Depression • Self-esteem • Drug abuse • 15% in deaf/hard of hearing vs. 7% normal population (NCID)

  7. Social Consequences • Hearing loss influences in development • Emotional, social health • Factors severity of social consequences • Amount of hearing loss • Moderate to profound • Worse or better? • Age • Greater difficulty at earlier stage • Gender • Female advantage?

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