By: Jay Alvarez
Submitted: 2010-05-24 03:03:10 | Word Count: 583
Nothing constructive comes from criticizing a child by calling him names like stubborn, antisocial, antagonistic, or disobedient, but it becomes even more erroneous when the parents and teachers are the ones dishing these out to kids. Regardless of how treatable mild to severe hearing loss is according to a physician, the undetected cases in children are behind this ongoing situation. How can we get to the bottom of this? Can we use hearing or audiometric tests?
According to a physician, whose identity wishes to remain a secret, a child not talking by age two may be suffering from deafness. The following discussion was made. It is important that parents recognize how a child speaks through imitation to comprehend how hearing and speech are connected.
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Jabber is what an infant from two to six months of age does best. No one is inattentive when he starts using sounds. In line with achieving outcomes that are to his liking, the infant will be selective with sounds as he hears his parents. Speech from the people surrounding him is also heard. After that, words and sentences will enter the picture. But because of how speech development among children can vary, the job of the parents is to promote its progress. Something as simple as the tone of voice, or the amount of attention given by parents to a child, can make a huge difference in how a child develops speech.
Infants may differ in terms of their vocabulary skills, according to the physician who shows the normal pattern for speech development that applies to children. On the average, at a year old, a baby will be able to speak three words. At eighteen to 20 months, 10 to 20 words, some two word groups and at two years, 50 to 250 words uttered in short sentences.
Hearing in infants can be tested without the necessity for sophisticated apparatus. A sign that the baby is not able to hear ordinary sounds is when the parents notice how these sounds come from the sight. Certain sounds like doorbell and telephone rings, footsteps, a ticking clock, and a loud voice from the other room are examples of these.
If your baby may have hearing loss, inform your doctor right away. Findings for infants who were totally deaf resulted from hearing tests. Making the sound louder is the way by which a hearing aid can be used for a baby even if he is born stone deaf due to residual hearing. Now, babies can also use hearing aids. A baby can adjust to the hearing aid rather quickly wherein he finds them comfortable enough to wear and not to pull off.
There are times when the hearing aids are used from infancy, and this allows children with residual hearing ability to enroll in regular schools instead of apply to special schools for the deaf. The utility of hearing aids allow children to engage in learning during the formative years, and the knowledge they gain will then help them interact with other people. Should children be able to have these devices, used stigma free, then they could have better chances at a socially happy life instead of a life in solitude they did not deserve to live.
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