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  • Title: Problems of hearing impaired children and suggested solutions.
    Author: Prasad B.
    Journal: ICCW News Bull; 1992; 40(2):11-7. PubMed ID: 12286292.
    Abstract:
    Factors related to development of verbal skills in hearing-impaired children include early diagnosis, early age of obtaining hearing aids, and early intervention. The development of speech occurs in the first 2 years of one's life. In addition to the hearing aid the child should also get early stimulation and training by parents and professionals toward developing speech and language. The hearing-impaired child is likely to get the benefit of a hearing aid only if it amplifies sound in accordance with his or her hearing loss. Proper audiological examination assesses the level of hearing loss and helps select a suitable hearing aid by conducting an aided audiogram. Parents who accept their child's problem are in a better emotional state to assist their child. The relationship between the degree of hearing impairment and development of verbal skills is analyzed by performance on the verbal section of the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC). Analysis of WISC results showed that in a group of 24 children with severe to profound hearing loss only 12% were able to answer questions on the verbal section of WISC. These children were attending normal schools and had developed almost normal speech and language with high parental involvement. In a group of 16 children with moderate and conductive hearing loss 80% were able to deal with the verbal section. Hearing-impaired children who attend school have better prospects of receiving structured stimulation for language development. There are only 2 special schools available for 3-5 year old children in Delhi. Services could be improved by spelling out in the educational policy of training programs for teachers of hearing-impaired children that 1) the method of teaching must be decided on the basis of the hearing-impaired child's capabilities and 2) teachers must conduct proper auditory stimulation programs.
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