deaf and hard of hearing. MISSING OR DAMAGING, WHAT DIFFERENCE?

MISSING OR DAMAGING, WHAT DIFFERENCE?

38. What is the difference between deaf, hard of hearing and hearing impaired?
To qualify the situation of people who perceive no sound, the precise term is that of "cophose", the people concerned are "cophotics". The term "deaf" is commonly used in their context, but there are mild, severe or profound average deafness that is not cophose. Should we reserve the word misunderstanding for people who hear badly, but who nevertheless hear, or generalize its use to all those, whose hearing is insufficient including cophotics? This book does not pretend to provide a definitive and definitive solution to this debate. No more than the recommendation of the term "hearing loss", long used in place of deaf or hard of hearing, but that the deaf refute, believing that we should not speak of disability in their regard. Language evolves in this area as in many others. It is thus that an amputee of one or more members, could be qualified formerly of invalid or cripple, before being called recently handicapped. But the "politically correct" use requires that we speak now only of people with disabilities. Anyway, the languages ​​evolving, the truth of tomorrow is not
not the truth of yesterday.

39. What are the deaf-mutes?
Deafness does not lead to a phonatory disability; but the deaf could not, in their infancy, at the age of learning the word, learn to reproduce what they did not hear. This is the reason why they find it difficult to express themselves by speech. However, they reject the name of "deaf-mutes", pejorative and inaccurate, which has fallen into disuse.

40. How many are deaf and hard of hearing in France?
According to the HID (Disability Incapacity Dependency) survey carried out in 1998-1999 by INSEE, there were 5 182 000 people in France with a hearing disability. This figure is probably lower than reality because it relies solely on the statement of individuals while some people are unaware of their disability, others refuse to admit it and therefore to declare it and for others finally, their mala is not reported because it is only one of many components of a more general state of disability. Given these shortcomings, overseas departments and territories, and the aging of the population during the last 14 years, we can estimate today that there are 6 million deaf and hard of hearing people in France.

41. How are the deaf and hard of hearing divided?
In this same HID survey, 6% of hearing impaired people with profound or complete hearing loss were identified with an inability to hear a conversation even with a hearing aid. The average to severe hearing loss is 28% of hearing impaired people, who said that they only hear a conversation if only one person speaks, if they speak loudly, even with the aid of a hearing aid. Finally, 66% of hearing impairments would be mild to moderate, with those claiming to hear a conversation, but only if only one person speaks.

42. What are the means of communication used by deaf people?
The deaf share with the whole population the use of the written language. French Sign Language (LSF) is a language in its own right, with its morphology and syntax. According to the DREES report of August 2007, it is used in France by 44,000 deaf, representing less than 1% of the hearing impaired, less than 1 per thousand of the general population; there are 19,000 hearing impaired people who claim to know her but do not practice it. Finally, 75,000 people who do not have a hearing loss report using it for professional use (interpreting, teaching) or for personal reasons:
communication with relatives, other social or cultural reasons. Deaf and hard of hearing people can use lip reading (reading on the lips).
Completed Spoken Language (LPC) intervenes in addition to oral expression and lip reading. His learning is easier than that of the LSF; it is mainly used for communication between deaf people and their families and teachers.
Typing consists of giving the hand positions corresponding to the letters of the alphabet.


43. When one notices that one hears badly, what to do to correct this decrease of the hearing and when to consult a doctor?
If the hearing loss is sudden, you should consult an ENT doctor urgently. Inform him of what happens to meet him in the hours that follow. If it is insidiously established, or if it is the entourage who has
points out, it is also an ENT doctor who will have to be consulted, but without this notion of extreme urgency.
If the decline in hearing is related to professional activity, the occupational physician must be consulted without delay.

44. Can hearing loss change a person's behavior?
Frequently, psychological and behavioral changes accompany the decline in hearing. The
People who are deaf or hard of hearing become more irritable, less patient, more distant with their surroundings. They tend to isolate themselves, or even to withdraw completely from social life. It is difficult for them to accept having lost some or all of the environmental information. Anxious not to expose this deficiency, which is often poorly tolerated by those around them, they aggravate this situation, in search of its concealment. Behavior most often illusory.

45. Can you graft a tympanum?
Tympanoplasty (tympanic transplant) is a surgical procedure performed for perforated eardrums, which can occur as a result of chronic or recurrent otitis. It may be necessary to perform conjugate grafts of the eardrum and the chain of ossicles.

46. ​​Is it true that a hearing-impaired person can recover hearing by a prosthetic stapes?
The third ossicle of the middle ear, named caliper because of its shape, can disintegrate in the evolution of certain affections, in particular the otospongiosis, disease which touches mainly the middle ear. This results in transmission deafness. We know how to remedy this situation by replacing the stirrup with a prosthesis, most often Teflon. The immediate results of this intervention are often spectacular.

47. What is a yoyo. What are they for ?
This is a device in the shape of the toy of this name. This transtympanic aerator is put in place by a doctor during a benign surgical procedure, to decompress the middle ear.