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Aural Rehabilitation Questions and Answers 2024
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Aural RehabilitationWhat is Aural Rehabilitation (AR)? - answer “Aural rehabilitation is intervention aimed at
minimizing and alleviating the communication
difficulties associated with hearing loss." (Teymuraz)
The difference between "rehabilitation" and "habilitation" - answer• Rehabilitation
- Restoring a lost skill
• Habilitation
- Developing a skill that was never present
- Primarily used in reference to children
Why AR? - answer• The consequences of hearing loss impact all aspects of a person's
life.
• Hearing loss impacts a person's ability to converse, making it more difficult to establish
intimacy and friendship.
• Aural rehabilitation seeks to restore a patient's ability to communicate.
Goals and Outcomes of AR - answer• Goals:
- Alleviate the difficulties related to hearing loss
- Minimize its consequences
• Outcomes:
- Enhanced conversational fluency (how smoothly conversation unfolds)
- Reduce hearing related disability (the loss of function imposed by hearing loss)
The World Health Organization (WHO) and hearing-related disability - answer• The
World Health Organization (WHO) developed the International Classification of
Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF).
- A classification system that considers the consequences of a health-related condition
within the context of a patient's environment and circumstances.
• Applied to patients with hearing loss, the focus is on how it affects the patient in
everyday life and how a hearing-related disability might be alleviated.
• Activity limitation
- Loss of physical structure and function
• Change in level of activity
• Participation restriction
- Lifestyle change due to activity limitation
• The effects of those limitations on the broader scope of life
Components of an AR Program - answer• Diagnostics & Quantification of HL
• Amplification & Assistive Listening Devices
• Tinnitus Management
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