How to deal with the rehabilitation of deaf children

Listening is very important for children to develop listening, speech, communication skills and even integrate into society. Unfortunately, not every child has sound listening. When the child is diagnosed with hearing impairment, especially severe deafness, how to do is the most conducive to the development of children?

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First of all, parents should adjust their mentality and face the fact positively. At present, through early diagnosis, early wearing of appropriate hearing aids or cochlear implants, can help hearing-impaired children to hear the voice to the maximum extent. A large number of children have benefited from it and entered the ordinary primary school.

With the popularization of newborn hearing screening, more and more hearing-impaired children have been found, diagnosed and intervened in the early stage; with the publicity and education of hearing health knowledge, more and more people from all walks of life have deepened their understanding of the prevention and rehabilitation of hearing impairment. However, there are still many parents who hold an irrational attitude. For example, (1) they are unwilling to face the reality for a long time, and self comfort means that their children talk late. This will only delay the time of early diagnosis and intervention, and affect the rehabilitation effect of children’s hearing and speech ability; (2) blind medical treatment, and delay the time. In contact with parents of hearing-impaired children, the author found that many parents blindly seek medical treatment in the early stage of treatment, for example, they found that their original hearing aid was the elderly hearing aid after 2 or 3 years of tossing! This will affect the recovery opportunity and effect of children, and even the life of children. The more timely and reasonable the adjustment of parents’ mentality, the more conducive to the recovery of children.

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Second, we should study the theoretical knowledge and practical skills related to listening and language rehabilitation. It is not enough just to have a good mentality, because listening and language rehabilitation needs the active participation and cooperation of parents. The research results and teaching phenomena show that the higher the participation of parents, the better the rehabilitation effect of children. However, how to participate? How to cooperate? This requires parents to understand the relevant basic knowledge: including children’s psychological development characteristics, hearing aids, cochlear implant knowledge, etc. In addition, the rehabilitation of auditory speech is closely related to language input. As the person who is most familiar with and contacts with children, parents have incomparable advantages in helping children with auditory speech rehabilitation. However, in order to achieve good or even twice the result with half the effort, parents need to master relevant skills, such as the skills to cultivate children’s listening awareness, how to expand children’s vocabulary and so on.

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Third, in the process of rehabilitation, parents should pay attention to two points: 1. Do not blindly compare, pay more attention to the growth of their children. You can often hear the parents say, “ah, your children have said so well since they started the machine for one year. Our family just doesn’t like to talk. How can we do it? I’m so worried!” I didn’t think that the children of others wore hearing aids for one year before the cochlear implant. Moreover, their children and their mothers belong to the type of special expression. Every child is unique, and individual differences are very large. Some children need a longer accumulation period. Some children are introverted, but they have good speech comprehension and learning ability. If the blind comparison is easy to produce anxiety and unrealistic expectations, it will only increase the pressure of children, and even worsen the relationship between parents and children, which is not conducive to the recovery of children. If we pay more attention to children’s own growth and give more appreciation and encouragement, it will greatly improve children’s self-confidence and achieve better results 2. Don’t be satisfied with the status quo, try to help children go higher and farther. Children’s rehabilitation is not in the pre-school years. After school age and adults, parents’ care, help and support are always needed. In the new era, there are new challenges, such as how to help children adapt to the life of the first grade of primary school, how to help children make a smooth transition in the transition period of the third and fourth grade of primary school, how to guide children through adolescence smoothly, and so on. Learning to listen and speak is only the first step, the journey is still very long, we need to do a lot.

Finally, and most importantly, parents should never neglect themselves. Only when one’s own psychological state is good, can children develop well. Generally speaking, in the process of children’s rehabilitation, there are usually one or two parents as the main care to participate in children’s rehabilitation training. Family members are often at odds about their children’s education. For the rehabilitation training of hearing-impaired children, due to the difference of parents in the amount of information, expectations, training methods, etc., it is easier to produce conflicts among family members, and also easy to make the main caregivers bear heavy pressure. In order to achieve a good rehabilitation effect, family members must reach a consensus and work together to promote the development of children’s hearing and speech In addition, parents should also pay attention to the establishment of their own social circle. While working hard for their children’s recovery, they should also allow themselves time to “relax” themselves. By finding friends and family members to relieve their bad emotions in time, they can face their children in a good state and a peaceful attitude and actively recover.