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Hearing Impairment

Hearing impairment can be either deafness or hardness of hearing. Deafness prevents understanding speech through the ear, while hardness of hearing can be helped with hearing aids. Hearing impaired children face challenges in communication, reception, and social development due to reduced ability to process sounds from the environment. Studies have found their intellectual abilities and academic achievement to be lower on average than normal children, though performance in arts may be equal. They also experience more emotional and behavioral issues resulting from isolation. However, deaf communities provide support for coping and functioning in society. Physically, hearing impaired people do not differ from normals in other senses. Their main difference is in functional hearing ability and language development, which affects verbal communication skills.

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Hearing Impairment

Hearing impairment can be either deafness or hardness of hearing. Deafness prevents understanding speech through the ear, while hardness of hearing can be helped with hearing aids. Hearing impaired children face challenges in communication, reception, and social development due to reduced ability to process sounds from the environment. Studies have found their intellectual abilities and academic achievement to be lower on average than normal children, though performance in arts may be equal. They also experience more emotional and behavioral issues resulting from isolation. However, deaf communities provide support for coping and functioning in society. Physically, hearing impaired people do not differ from normals in other senses. Their main difference is in functional hearing ability and language development, which affects verbal communication skills.

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Hearing Impairment

Meaning
• Hearing and speech play a joint role
in communication.
• It is therefore hearing impaired
children face double problem.
• One in the area of reception other
in the area of communication.
• Hearing impairment is of two
types - deaf and hard of hearing.
• Those people are deaf have a
hearing loss to the extent that it
prevents understanding speech
through ear.
• People who are hard of hearing can
process information from sounds
and can be benefited by hearing
aids.
Characteristics of
Hearing Impaired
Children
Intellectual Abilities
• Intellectual functioning of hearing
impaired people is limited to less
than average.
• It is because one third of
intellectual development depends
upon what we listen in the
environment
• Pintner and Paterson on the
basis of their studies found that
severely hearing impaired have
minimum IQ of 63 and medium
IQ of 91.
• They found no significant
difference between the deaf and
the normal in 12 studies.
Educational Achievement

• Children and adults who have


mild hearing loss generally
achieve more in academics than
those whose hearing losses are
severe.
• Deaf by birth tend to have more
difficulty in academics than
those who become deaf after 8
or 10 years from the life.
• Hearing impaired children who
belong to high socio-economic
status experience fewer
academic difficulties.
• Hearing impaired children don't
perform well like normals but
their ability in performing arts or
fine arts is no lesss than
normals.
Social development and
Adjustment
• They stay in isolation due to poor
communication ability and
frustation.
• As a result their social development
is adversely affected.
• They show very high degree of
emotional instability causing
maladjustment
Behavioral Characteristics

• Hearing impaired people are


deviant from the norms and
traditions of the society.
• Some people cope with the
reality of deafness as a life long
condition and lead normal life.
• People who are deaf teach each
other how to function in the
society and how to get along
others.
• Deaf people mostly prefer to
have company of hearing
impaired people and in this way
group of hearing impaired
people are formed.
Physical Capacities
• People who are deaf or hard of
hearing are no more or less than
normal people in other sensory
abilities like sight,smell taste and
touch.
• They basically differ in functional
hearing from their peers or
other normal people.
Communication Abilities

• Language development is
delayed if hearing loss is of
moderate type.
• These people less vocabulary
power than the normals
• Verbal communication ability
may be zero if hearing
impairment is zero.
• As hearing impaired people
avoid to interact with others,
their language abilities are
retarded.
• Normal people neglect hard of
hearing people as they require
to communicate at high pitch.
• As a result deaf or hard of
hearing people have less chance
of interaction with others.
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