24th October 2013 Reflective Practise Piece Description The patient was attending, on her own, a 60 minute consultation with the resident Hearing Aid Audiologist. The lady came to us having been recommended by word of mouth by family and friends. She had been tested 6 months ago by another Specsavers Hearing practice, so access to a previous audiogram revealed a mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss. No other case notes were available at the time of the consultation. Key Issues
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pitches of everyday sounds like a dog’s bark of a phone’s ring. This ability can be achieved through practice. It is said that ear-trained people cringe when they hear specific songs san out-of-tune. Although they are known to be sensitive around sounds, their hearing is no different from an “average” person’s. This musical ability is known as “perfect pitch”. The ear can be very sensitive to music since music is composed of different pitches. Pitch perception is the way a person “observes” music
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old male, recently suffered from an ear infection. This informant has suffered from ear infections most of his toddler life. As a young child, at the age of 19 months, this informant got PE tubes inserted into bilateral ears, yet the ear infections kept reoccurring. That is when his mother began to use natural garlic oil to treat his ear infections. After the first time using it, this informant claims he never had to go to the doctor again for treatment, and his ear infections occurred less frequently
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a newsletter, involves trying to choose the right words and nonverbal cues to convey a message that will be interpreted in the way that you intend. Effective listeners show speakers that they have been heard and understood. "We were given two ears but only one mouth, because listening is twice as hard as talking." Sources of Difficulty by the Speaker • Voice volume too low to be heard. • Making the message too complex, either by including too many unnecessary details or too many
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27 February 2013 E-portfolio 1.1: Listening skills Student number: NGWSIM006 Listening is a skill Oxford Mini Dictionary (2007) describes listening as “to take notice of and act on what someone says “. There is a fine line between listening and hearing. The question is where the fine line lies? The answer is attention. Hearing is explained by Horowitz (2012) as a passive-action, it is an ever-engaged sense that makes a person capable of not just recognizing sound but also triggering a response
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Outline the concepts of forces, pressure and simple machines in relation to health care (PC 1.3) Question 1 Match the following words with their CORRECT definitions a. Equilibrium __ is a grooved wheel on a pin or axle b. Pulley __ force that acts between 2 surfaces c. Traction __ balance of equal and opposite forces d. Friction __ A force that results when fluid (gas / liquid) particles collide with each other and the container e. Pressure
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farm bill Washington D.C. – The USDA will be conducting nationwide listening sessions, Secretary of Agriculture John Doe announced Saturday to The National Association of Farm Broadcasters. The secretary opened his speech by opening his doors and ears to fellow farmers and ranchers across the country. “It is important that we operate in the open, important that we do that to fulfill our mission here at the USDA. Transparency is essential to serve our farmers and ranchers across this country.”
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Psychology p.1 Psychology Experiments Psychology p.2 Abstract I have just been asked to teach the concept of adaptation to a psychology class. I will conduct three experiments for this. Then I will write a paper that describes adaption and how I experienced it in my experiments. The paper will cover the following. I will fully describe process and results of the experiments that I chose. I will also answer what is sensory adaptation. Then I will explain the concept of sensory adaptation
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The new technology that is going to exist in the future will be a Nano Earpiece Turaion. This device will be hands free, it will only to attach to the user in the ear. What it is, a new modified, advanced, and shrieked version of a computer. Just that you would be able to control everything with your mind. For example, if you wanted to look for a song that you wanted to hear, you give the command in your mind, and the device automatically reacts to your command and bring ups the song. How this device
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chronic inner ear disorder that primarily affects the ears’ membranous labyrinth. When one has Meniere’s disease, there is an excess amount of fluid present in the inner ear, this affects the ears hearing and balance mechanisms. Although research on Meniere’s disease is still under way, that endolymphatic hydrops (increased pressure in the ear) is the main cause of the symptoms, which are experienced. Furthermore the endolymphatic hydrops causes an imbalance in the fluid management of the ear, thus leading
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