Hearing Impairment Degrees and Communication

There are four general methods to aid in the orientation and mobility of people with ______ impairment:

The long cane is a mobility aid used by individuals with ______ impairment, who sweep it in a wide arc in front of them:

Guide dogs are dogs who are trained for the purpose of helping people who are ______ navigate the environment:

Tactile maps are an embossed representation of the environment that people who are ______ can use to orient themselves to their surroundings:

Communication is the process of sharing ______ and involves many communicative functions:

Acts of communication, such as requesting, rejecting, commenting, arguing and ______ are defined as communicative functions:

A low incidence, severe ______ will involve extensive and ongoing support in more than one major life activity.

Traumatic Brain Injury refers to injury to the ______ – not including conditions present at birth, birth trauma or degenerative diseases and condition.

Deaf-Blindness is defined by IDEA as an individual who has a central visual acuity of 20/200 in the better ______ with corrective lenses.

The combination of impairments described in the preceding paragraphs of this definition causes extreme difficulty in attaining ______ in daily life activities.

Traumatic Brain Injury may affect ______ and may affect cognition, language, memory, attention, reasoning, abstract thinking, judgement, problem solving, sensory or perceptual and motor disabilities.

Deaf-Blindness is defined by IDEA as an individual who has a progressive hearing loss leading to a condition where most ______ cannot be understood with optimum amplification.

A hearing level of 10 to 15 dB is considered ______.

Individuals with a hearing level of 26 to 40 dB have ______ difficulty hearing faint or distant speech.

At a hearing level of 41 to 55 dB, group activities such as ______ discussions present a communication challenge.

Individuals with a hearing level of 56 to 70 dB have difficulty in ______ situations.

At a hearing level of 71 to 90 dB, the individual's ______ is not altogether intelligible.

At a hearing level of 91 dB and above, ______ is the primary modality of communication.

Fingerspelling is the representation of letters of the English alphabet by ______ positions.

The two most common ways of describing someone with ______ impairment are the legal and educational definitions.

A person who is legally ______ is one who has visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with correction.

The educational definition of blindness stresses the method of ______ instruction.

Low vision is sometimes referred to as ______ sighted.

Visual acuity of 20/70 and 20/200 in the better eye with correction falls under the category of ______ vision.

Researchers using conceptual tasks developed by ______ have concluded that infants and very young children who are blind lag behind their sighted peers.

______ skills refer to the ability to have a sense of where one is in relation to other people, objects and landmarks and to move through the environment.

Persons with visual impairment process spatial information as a sequential ______ or as a map depicting the general relation of various points in the environment.

Cognitive mapping is a method of processing spatial information that offers more ______ in navigating.

Some people who are blind possess a skill called ______ sense, which enables them to detect the presence of obstacles in their environment.

The ______ effect is a phenomenon where the pitch of a sound rises as the listener moves toward its source.