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Title: 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?
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