SPTH341: Lecture 1 What is Aural Rehabilitation

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SPTH341 Lecture 1What is Aural
(Re)habilitation?

• Mark C. Flynn, PhD
• Dept of Speech Language Therapy

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What is Aural (Re)habilitation?

• The logic behind rehabilitation is to provide an
  individual with the most appropriate
  technological support, and then to help the
  person build skill levels and functioning.

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Definitions

• Habilitation
• vs
• Rehabilitation

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Goals?

• Alleviate the difficulties of hearing impairment
• Minimize its consequences

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Classification of hearing loss
(Tye-Murray, 1998)
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Is Aural Rehabilitation Worthwhile?

• Demographics?
• older people
• infants and children
• adults
• Cost effectiveness?