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Auditory Neuropathy
Luke Bealor
Auditory Neuropathy
What is Auditory Neuropathy?
A.N. as I understood it is a condition where the cochlea and every other part of the inner, middle, and outer ear are normally functioning. The only exception is that the VIII cranial nerve is not functioning properly. OAE tests are showing up absent, meaning that the VIII has a problem. The funny thing is that when cat-scans were done no tumors were found.
Congenital or
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If there is improvement then they will be able to acquire some oral language easier with the use of Cued Speech, as opposed to ASL.
Age
Auditory Neuropathy can be found in a range from children all the way to adults. I think the reason for this is that it is such a recently discovered problem that many people have gone through most of their lives with this disease and are just recently being diagnosed.
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