Question

1.) Describe the possible speech and language developmental delays a child with hearing impairment may face.

2.) How is access to speech and language provided to a child with hearing loss?

3.) How can we ensure that a child with hearing loss has a beneficial auditory environment for learning through the auditory channel?

Answer 1

Possible speech and language developmental delay a child with hearing impairment may face:

• It causes delay in the development of receptive and expressive communication (speech and language )
• Language deficit causes learning problem that reduce academic achievement
• It lead to social isolation
• Vocabulary development more slowly
• Difficult to understand larger and complex sentence
• May speak too loudly and not loud enough
• Difficult with academic achievement

How access to speech and language provided to child with hearing loss:

1. Use of prosthetic device can be used to amplify the environmental sound that make them audible
2. If hearings loss is quite severe cochlear implantationimplants can be used.
3. Suitable amplification or cochlear implantation as early as possible after identification of hearing loss
4. Listening games
5. Collaboration with speech therapist
6. Auditory training :The mother trained by a specialis
7. Speech therapy

How can we ensure that child with hearing loss has a beneficial auditory environment for learning through auditory channel:

• Good receptive and expressive communication with adequate vocabulary
• Ability to understand and write complex sentence
• Academic achievement