How hearing loss can affect the physical and psychological growth of a child
Last blog I have received lots of queries on the physical and psychological growth of a child with hearing loss. So, in today’s article, I’ll discuss the effect of hearing loss on children’s physical and psychological growth.
Hearing
loss includes a range of consequences depending on the type of hearing loss. In
the case of children, if the hearing loss is by
born or it starts within the age of 7 then it leaves a long-term effect on the
child's psychological and physical growth.
Effect on Physiological growth
The
process of child development is they learn what they see and hear. So, if your
child is not able to hear properly then he starts performing cognitive tasks by
only seeing and without understanding. As a result, you might see a delayed
development of receptive and expressive communication skills.
Let’s
jump into a bit deep.
·
Vocabulary.
The
development of vocabulary related knowledge become slower for children with
hearing loss. Here what happens, such children catch up the concrete worlds
like 'jump,' 'car,' 'red,' with greater ease but find difficulties to learn the
abstract words like 'before,' 'after,' and function words like 'the', 'an,'
'a.' Netheirly that their vocabulary gap also includes the little
understanding, or even no understanding of work with multiple meaning', e.g.
'bank.'
·
Speaking.
Do
you know, the speech sounds ‘S’, ‘Sh', 'f', 'K', and 't' need a more
concentrated hearing to be learned? Yes, these sounds seem to be difficult for
your child, if he has hearing loss. As in such cases, children try to learn by
following the lip movement, they can't recognize the difference between these
sounds.
·
Not only that as, but the hearing loss
also make it difficult for your child to hear others, he feels the same while
he speaks. This makes his voice louder and of the greater pitch. But due to the
vocabulary gap and excessive pitch, the speech might be like mumbling.
·
Sentence
Structure. As hearing loss
makes the children learn the complex and compound sentences to they find
difficulties in expressing themselves in front of others. They remain limited
to simple sentences. Even they find it difficult to understand the end of the
sentences with 'S' or 'ed’.
·
Academic
Achievement. This is the area that experiences the
most negative effect of the physiological development lack for a child with
hearing loss. Reading and mathematical concept development become a major
concern in this case.
·
Social
Functioning. Lack
of speaking and understanding ability, after a certain age, children start
feeling uncomfortable in front of other people. In most of the cases, we see
that after the age of 7, such children keep themselves isolated in schools,
playgrounds, and other social places. This affects their social skills
development also. Finally, these lead to severe behavioral problems. Even your,
child might get into depression.
Effect on Physical Health
While
the impact is severe on psychological development, we can't overlook the impact
on physical development too. Lack of hearing ability leads to reduced quality
of lifestyle that affects the wellbeing of the children. For example, if your
child is picking up something from the street or floor and eating that, you
will forbid them to do so. But it might be possible, the hearing difficulties
will not let your child understand what you are trying to tell him in actual.
So latter he can repeat the same action.
Apart
from these, in 10% of cases, your child might experience occasional headaches,
muscle tension, and fatigue.
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