Aural Rehabilitation Glossary

The psychological stage in which a person acknowledges and adjusts to their hearing loss, a key milestone in aural rehab...

The gradual adjustment process by which a hearing aid user adapts to amplified sound over time, leading to improved spee...

The adjustment phase during which a new hearing aid user adapts perceptually and cognitively to amplified sound over day...

The high-pitched whistling or squealing sound produced when amplified sound from a hearing aid's receiver leaks back to...

The softest level of sound detectable by a patient while wearing a hearing device, measured in a calibrated soundfield r...

A measure of how well a hearing aid user understands speech while wearing their device, contrasted with unaided performa...

The softest level of sound an individual can detect while wearing their hearing device, plotted on an audiogram to asses...

Abbreviation for the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit, a self-report outcome measure assessing the benefit der...

Any technology beyond a conventional hearing aid that is designed to improve access to sound in specific listening situa...

A metric expressing the proportion of the long-term average speech spectrum that is audible to a listener at a given lis...

A graph plotting an individual's hearing thresholds in decibels across a range of test frequencies, used as the primary...

The comprehensive, person-centred clinical process of reducing hearing-related disability through device fitting, counse...

The gradual improvement in speech recognition performance following hearing aid fitting, attributed to the central audit...

The cognitive process of selectively focusing on a target auditory stimulus while suppressing competing sounds, a functi...

The perceptual ability to recognise a complete auditory message even when portions of the signal are missing, degraded,...

The deterioration in speech recognition ability in an unaided ear that occurs over time when it receives insufficient ac...

A temporary decline in auditory sensitivity or performance resulting from sustained exposure to sound, distinct from noi...

The ability to retain, recall, and sequence sounds or spoken information after auditory presentation, a key skill target...

A hearing disorder characterised by the presence of normal outer hair cell function but disrupted neural transmission fr...

A deficit in the neural processing of auditory information that cannot be attributed to peripheral hearing loss, resulti...

The perceptual process by which the auditory system segregates and groups simultaneous sound streams into meaningful obj...

Structured therapeutic exercises designed to improve a listener's ability to perceive and interpret auditory signals, pa...

A specialised intervention approach that trains individuals with hearing loss to use amplified residual hearing to devel...

A broad set of services and interventions aimed at helping individuals with hearing loss maximise their auditory functio...