By: Jay Alvarez
Submitted: 2010-06-28 22:04:56 | Word Count: 597
It is possible for parents and teachers to resort to some name calling when talking about children, but it is never acceptable to refer to a child through erroneous and negative terms like stubborn, criminal, rebellious, or even insolent. It often goes unnoticed but mild to severe hearing loss affects children of all ages, and it is these undetected cases, although deemed treatable by a physician, add fuel to the fire. Is there a solution? Will audiometric or hearing tests help?
A baby who hasn't learned to talk by the age of two should be examined for deafness, said the physician who asked that he remains anonymous. Here are several of his findings. To talk, a child will resort to imitation, when parents realize this, they too will better understand how hearing and speech are related.
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Up to the sixth month, the infant is only capable of babbling. Then he finds out how sounds can cause a reaction. To encourage enjoyable reactions, he will choose certain sounds at the time when he hears his parents. At about this time, he is also hearing speech from other people around him. Afterwards, recognizing words and sentences mark the next stage. The development of speech in children can vary, but the parents can help foster their learning. For the child to have an improved sense of speech, not only should parents provide adequate affection but also use pleasant tones when speaking.
There is a normal pattern that applies to speech development for children, as said by a physician, but it is not impossible for certain differences to exist among infant's vocabularies. The vocabulary for a year old baby will be comprised of three words. From this point until the age of two, the words will slowly increase from 10 to 250 and from two word groups to sentences.
Testing the hearing of an infant will not normally call for elaborate apparatus. The evidence of a baby not being able to hear common sounds is when parents see how the sounds originate from the baby's sight. Common examples for these sounds are doorbell and telephone rings, a ticking clock, footsteps, and probably a loud voice from next door.
When your baby may have hearing loss, tell the doctor immediately. After using hearing tests, few infants were determined to be totally deaf. 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. Equipping babies with hearing aids is feasible. When a baby is able to adjust to using a hearing aid, he will start feeling unselfconscious about having them on all the time.
Should a child with some hearing ability be introduced to hearing aids early on, probably from infancy, then he can attend a regular school rather than be forced to go to a special school for the deaf. Learning during the formative years is crucial as these skills help us interact with and understand one another as we grow up, and this is where hearing aids are of great value. Used without stigma, these hearing aids allow children to live normal lives, as opposed to the stereotypical life in silence that they were supposedly destined to have.
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