HOW HEARING LOSS AFFECTS THE ACADEMICS OF YOUR CHILD?

 

Hearing is important to speech and language development.  Hearing loss in early stage of childhood can affect the development in a child, but if the problem is identified at the initial stage it can be treated.

Given below are few ways a hearing loss affects children:

-          Delay in speech and language development

-          Language disorder causes learning problems

-          Social isolation and low self-esteem

Specific effects on development

Vocabulary

-          Slow vocabulary development

-           Concrete words like jump, five, cat are easy to learn than abstract words like equal, before, after.

-          With age the gap, the vocabulary between children with hearing loss and children with normal hearing widens.

-          Children with hearing loss are not able to understand at once while teaching them

-          Difficulty in understanding words that has multiple meaning. For e.g Bark ( bark of a dog, tree bark )

-          Academic progress falls

-          Parents, teachers, hearing professional should support children with hearing loss to level up their achievement.

Sentence Structure

-          Children with hearing loss understands and creates simple sentences than children with normal hearing

-          Have problems in understanding and constructing complicated sentences

-          Cannot hear the words ending with as or ed.

Speaking

-          Cannot hear quiet speech sounds like s, sh, f, th as the sound level of these quieter speech sounds is on the order of 40-50 dB.

-          Children with hearing loss are even not able to hear their own voice when they speak cause either they are too loud or too soft.

 

Academic Achievement

Academic achievement is low overall, especially in mathematical concepts and reading

 

Social functioning

Feel isolated as they feel they have no friends in school.

What can be done?

A child who is struggling with hearing problem needs to start their treatment at the early stage to improve their academic performance which also improves their quality of life.

The sooner the treatment is given the faster overall development can be seen in child.

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Child friendly hearing specialists

Hearing ability in children is perhaps the most important thing because of how impactful it will be for the child to develop speech and language skills.

If your child is facing hearing problems, you might get a lot of questions and it is normal to feel obnoxious. Hearing problems in children are commonly seen now and various treatments are available.

An audiologist is a licensed health care professional who is into the diagnosis of hearing loss in adults and children as well.

It is completely okay to run tests to understand your child's hearing profile. It shows whether the child has a hearing loss on one side or both sides.

There are a few kinds of treatments available for hearing loss. The audiologist is the one who finds the best fit treatment for a child considering various factors like age, level of hearing problem, and various other hearing factors.

Along with the audio therapy treatment, parents must also interact regularly with children by amplifying their hearing aid devices with various types of sound and helping them understand their environment. Parents must also follow the prescriptions that audiologists provided and teach the child to lip-read the words and sentences to improve their speech and language skills.

Every child is special, treat your child as normal as he is and visit an audiologist regularly to improve his health profile. 

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