range of factors. Each client is an individual and what works for one person may well not work for another. Their age‚ mental ability‚ medical condition etc can all affect how they are able to communicate. For example clients with dementia‚ hearing impairments‚ and mental disabilities will all need to be approached differently. 3.1 People from different backgrounds may use and / or interpret communication methods in different ways. What is acceptable to one person may not be acceptable to another
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means that hallways can become very crowded and doorways can be awkward to get through. As well as physically disabled people‚ people with visual or hearing impairments can equally be at risk as if the hallways are blocked and a visually impaired resident has no knowledge of this it could lead them to be confused and potentially end up falling. A hearing impaired resident may not be able to hear if there is an emergency meaning that people have to leave the building quickly this could fault in them
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Unit 4222 – 393 Understand sensory loss Outcome 1 1: Factors impacting an individual with sensory loss are mainly how an individual perceives themselves‚ it can have a negative or positive affect this can cause depression‚ other related illness or even lead towards isolation. Factors influencing an individual may be the following: • Is the sensory loss noticeable? • Is the condition going to improve or worsen over time? • How do people see me and how they react towards me? • What support will
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the intensity of a noise is the increase in the energy in its sound waves‚ and if this energy gets to a certain point it creates damage in the humans ear (70 dB). There are approximately 40 million people who have hearing loss in America and a fourth of these people are having hearing loss because of noise intensity. The damage is done specifically to the different sized hairs in the concha in the human ear‚ not allowing them to transmit high and low pressure vibrations to the nervous system through
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health promotion‚ disease prevention‚ palliation‚ protection from harm and rehabilitation. I described audiologist specific role and how I fits into comprehensive care. Stating that audiologist play a large role in health promotion‚ preventing hearing loss and in rehabilitation. Furthermore‚ I described my thoughts and feelings related to audiologists’ role with in comprehensive care‚ as well as how these may impact my future behaviour. Expressing that I feel sad and think it unfair that financial
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Being deaf in a hearing world can make an individual feel like an outcast‚ like they do not belong in the society in which they are living. In recent years‚ many deaf schools across the United States have either closed or received threats of closure due to lack of funding. Therefore‚ more and more deaf and hard of hearing students are being mainstreamed into public education. According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)‚ public schools are required to provide accommodations
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only used when a hearing aid is not strong enough to provide adequate function. The cochlear implant involves a lot of time to consider the procedure because of cost‚ risk‚ and being a part of the deaf community. In order to make a decision of getting a cochlear implant one must have background knowledge on how a cochlear works‚ hearing vs. deaf‚ benefits‚ risk and cost. To understand how a cochlear implant works one needs to have a strong background knowledge in regular hearing. The ear is comprised
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terms that are unacceptable to the deaf‚ such as : deaf-mute‚ mute‚ hearing handicapped‚ disabled‚ dummie etc. Deaf people are just as intelligent as hearing people. Even in today ’s day and age some people still use these terms. Another common assumption of the hearing is that all deaf people can or should read lips‚ this is not so- lip reading is very difficult to master. Verbalization is also expected from the deaf by the hearing‚ this is also very difficult for the deaf because most deaf people
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You are approached by a Grandparent who is hearing impaired how do you facilitate the best environment and through your body language and how you speak with him to ensure you communicate with him in a way which meets his needs and is respectful of his impairment I was approached by a child’s Grandparent with an hearing impairment who wanted to speak to me I instructing the Grandparent to follow me to somewhere quite‚ has this allowed us to speak and there to be no interruptions or other notices
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Nowadays‚ there are many things that distinguish the Hearing world from the Deaf culture. To begin with‚ the language is essential when communicating. The Hearing world communicates through the English language by speaking and writing to one another to get their message across. As for the Deaf culture‚ American Sign Language (ASL) is used. ASL can be seen as a language that is capable of expressing abstract ideas. Therefore‚ the Deaf culture uses not only signing‚ but also body movement and facial
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