Aural rehabilitation

Aural rehab includes specific procedures in which each therapy and amplification device has as its goal the habilitation or rehabilitation of persons to overcome the handicap (disability) caused by a hearing impairment or deafness.

[2] The speech-language pathologist is typically responsible for evaluating the client's receptive and expressive communication skills and providing the services to anchor improvement.

[2] In the United States, adult aural rehab started as a result of the number of soldiers who incurred hearing loss in World War II and were in need of services.

Back then, audiologists and speech-language pathologists would put emphasis on speech reading (lip-reading) auditory training, and would fit the soldiers with very primitive hearing aids.

Additional members of the hearing care team can include any of the following: educators of the child who is hard of hearing, has mental health counselors, school psychologists, sensory device manufacturers and distributors, social workers, telecommunication and captioning service providers [2], and vocational counselors [3].