Aural rehabilitation is the process of identifying and diagnosing a hearing loss, providing different types of therapies to clients who are hard of hearing, and implementing different amplification devices to aid the client's hearing abilities.
Known Causes
There are a number of causes, with the most common being exposure to loud noise for a prolonged period of time.
Treatment
Hearing assistive technology
Communication strategies
Auditory training sessions
Relaxation techniques
Rather than relying solely on hearing aids or cochlear implants to solve hearing problems, however, the aural rehab approach uses a Needs Assessment to help the person with hearing loss pinpoint specific situations that are highly valued and at risk for being compromised by difficulties with hearing, even with excellent amplification. These are usually the important experiences in a person’s life that present difficulties with understanding speech in the presence of noise, which challenge one’s ability to maintaining attention and focus, and/or which contribute to listening fatigue and internal stress reactions when communication breakdown occurs.
Do you require aural rehabilitation?
Any individual with hearing loss who is noticing difficulty communicating may be a good candidate for aural rehabilitation. If you find yourself withdrawing from activities that you used to enjoy because it is too hard to hear or stay involved in conversations, aural rehabilitation may be of benefit. If you often feel frustrated when trying to listen, aural rehabilitation may be able to help.
Hearing Devices
Assistive listening devices (ALDs) are devices used with or without hearing aids, bone-anchored implants, and cochlear implants to make sounds more accessible to people with varying degrees of hearing impairment. Many people with hearing loss depend on or can benefit from some kind of ALD to help them develop or maintain a comfortable level of independence in their daily lives.
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