Hearing is crucial for a person’s language and speech development, learning, and general communication skills. Children who have hearing problems due to hearing loss or problems processing acoustic information tend to be underserved in the general population. Anyone with early hearing loss will find that it has a real impact on an individual’s life. The earlier the problem is diagnosed and the procedure begins, the less likely it is that the outcome will be affected.
Four important ways a child can be affected by hearing loss are:
- This leads to a considerable delay in their ability to receive and express themselves for communication, which are their speech and language processors.
- Lack of language causes problems with their ability to learn, which leads to limited academic performance.
- Communication disorders often lead to social problems and low self-esteem.
- It could potentially affect the child’s career choice.
Specific side effects
vocabulary
• Children with hearing loss often develop their vocabulary more slowly.
• People with hearing loss learn strong words much more easily than abstract words. They also have problems processing functional words.
• As children get older, their vocabulary gap increases. If your child has hearing loss, he or she only has one chance to do the right thing.
• Children with hearing loss have difficulty understanding a word that has more than one meaning.
Structure the sentences
• Children with hearing problems often have difficulty understanding and produce smaller sentences than children with normal hearing.
• You will have difficulty understanding a complex sentence, let alone trying to write it. Sentences that contain relative or passive clauses are often the most difficult for children with hearing loss.
• The child often has trouble hearing the endings of words like -s or -ed. This will lead to many misunderstandings and misuse of verbs, plural forms and disagreements with verbs and subjects as well as possessives.
Talk
• People who are hard of hearing often have difficulty hearing low speech sounds, eg. B. s, sh, f, t and k. They will often leave them out of their speech. This makes it difficult to understand their language.
• Children with hearing problems often have difficulty hearing themselves speak. You may be speaking too quietly or at an extreme volume. Your pitch could be higher than normal. Sometimes it seems like they are mumbling due to poor flexion, stress, and poor speaking speed.
Academic success
• Math and reading are generally the most difficult for children with hearing loss, but academically they should cover almost all areas.
• People with moderate loss will often have one to four grades lower than their classmates without hearing problems. Appropriate management techniques can solve this problem.
• People with severe hearing loss will not complete their studies beyond the third or fourth year unless the procedure is early.
• Children who are hard of hearing and children with normal hearing are often further apart during the school system.
• Your level of performance depends directly on the level of parental involvement, as well as the quality, quantity and timing of support.
Work on the social level
• Children with severe hearing loss often feel isolated and alone. They are unhappy at school, especially when their interaction with others is limited in age.
• Social problems are more common in people with mild hearing loss than in people with severe hearing loss.
What can you do?
Research shows that children who are diagnosed with a hearing problem at an early age develop the language skills necessary to stay with their peers without hearing loss. If your child has hearing loss, you must intervene immediately to promote appropriate cognitive and linguistic development. Audiologists can assess your child and help you suggest the most appropriate treatment for your child.