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Demonstrations: Simulated Listening with Hearing Loss & Devices

DemoListening with Hearing Loss

Listening with FM Systems

Listening with Cochlear Implants

Listening with Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder

Demonstrations of the challenges of speechreading can be found HERE

Listening is hard work when you aren’t able to hear all of the speech sounds! Children with hearing loss are usually more fatigued than their typically hearing friends or siblings. For a brief article on this topic from Britain, download Tiredness in Deaf Children

Welcoming the Child with Hearing Loss into Child Care  Not a simulation but good information to share with the parent and/or child care provider along with your suggestion to listen to a hearing loss simulation.

Thanks to all of the researchers who made these resources available!

Simulating unilateral or mild hearing loss with families? Purchase a pack earplugs from us. Experiencing the listening challenges is a valuable strategy for facilitating understanding of the importance of ‘little hearing losses.’

Visual Simulations of the IMPACT of Hearing Loss

missing bits and piecesSimulations like the yellow story shown can be very effective in getting across the concept of being able to ‘hear’ but not fully understand or the time lag needed to integrate all of the pieces before comprehension occurs. ready-made handout

Another approach is to provide a visual representation of a student’s estimated access to verbal instruction as identified with the Functional Listening Evaluation.This story is based on The Country Mouse and the City Mouse

which which is well known by many teachers. Here are more visual analogies.

A ready made-handout showing classroom directions imposed over 100 puzzle pieces is a very effective way of visually showing the impact of hearing loss. Here is a handout with puzzle pieces that can be used to effectively report results of a Functional Listening Evaluation.

Simulation of Listening in Varying Classroom Acoustic Conditions

Quick 4-slide Demonstration Be sure to include this 4-slide PowerPoint show with embedded audio files as you inservice teachers. You must show it as a PowerPoint slide show to be able to hear the various simulations. It simulates the effects of distance, high and low frequency listening and reverberation. Classroom Acoustics 4 slides  Our thanks to Phonak for the original materials.

Simulation of Listening with a Hearing Loss – via entering individual audiogram

  • Hearing Loss Simulator     Source: NIOSH / Centers for Disease Control. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Hearing Loss Simulator (HLSim) displays a “control panel” for showing the effects of hearing loss visually on the frequency band control panel and sound level display screen while the user listens to the audio playback. For more information or to request a NIOSH Hearing Loss Simulator CD, contact NIOSH Mining at OMSHR@cdc.gov.

Simulations of Listening with a Hearing Loss (audio demonstrations with visuals)

Simulations of Listening with a Hearing Loss (audio recording demonstrations)