- August 25, 2024
Hearing-impaired children
They are those who suffer from hearing loss (hearing difficulty), Which leads to speech disorders. Unlike deaf children, Hearing-impaired children can accumulate certain vocabulary with the help of their sense of hearing. The degree of hearing loss can vary from difficulty perceiving whispers to a severe restriction in the ability to perceive speech at the level of the voice of a conversation. The level of speech development largely depends on the severity of hearing loss, and the time of its appearance, As well as on the conditions of upbringing taking into account hearing impairment and the individual characteristics of the child. The younger the child who has lost hearing, The sooner the speech deteriorates, collapses or does not form, the faster and more serious. It is important to start corrective action as soon as possible to preserve speech and develop the verbal speech perception skills of others based on it. The timely measures for speech correction and the development of lip (face) reading skills, and the development of residual hearing even with significant and early hearing loss, It allows the child to acquire a sufficiently developed speech by the time he enters school.