Sensory disability - hearing

• Auditory processing disorder Auditory processing difficulty concerns a person whose ears work, but whose brain takes longer to make sense of the sounds it receives. The voice is perceived, the words arrive, and yet their meaning is rebuilt with a sl… View the explanations
• Cochlear implants A cochlear implant is a device that transmits sound directly to the auditory nerve, bypassing the part of the ear that no longer works. It combines an internal part, fitted during an operation, and an external processor … View the explanations
• Deafness Deafness covers very different realities depending on whether it is present from birth or arrives later, mild or profound. For some deaf people, particularly those who are deaf from birth, French Sign Language (LSF, Fren… View the explanations
• Hard of hearing Being hard of hearing means a partial hearing loss: the person perceives sounds, but not always clearly enough to make out the words. Some frequencies are missing, often the high ones, which blurs consonants and makes tw… View the explanations
• Tinnitus Tinnitus is sounds perceived in the absence of any external source: a ringing, a buzzing, a hissing, or a pulsing that only the person concerned hears. It can be continuous or intermittent, in one ear or both, more or le… View the explanations

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