Therapy for Adults with Hearing Loss Auditory and Cognitive Form

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our goal is to provide auditory training to people who have hearing loss an auditory training is teaching people how to use to the optimal extent their remaining hearing people need to be trained because persons with hearing loss have a hard time discriminating speech in particular it sounds very muffled and distorted and hearing aids often make sounds louder for you but they don't necessarily make the sounds clearer so you need to learn how to interpret this distorted auditory signal we have designed a computer-based training program for people who have hearing loss they come to us and for about an hour or two hours each session they sit before a computer monitor and get computerized auditory training and some of the features are that we've incorporated principles of cognitive psychology and second language learning into what traditionally has been auditory training from cognitive psychology we bring in learning theory and for example we have a lot of question answer kinds of activiti