Five questions parents of deaf children want to know at the beginning of diagnosis

Hearing practitioners often do not understand the mood of parents of deaf children, so it is difficult to give them a satisfactory hearing solution.

In fact, it is the premise of hearing workers’ rehabilitation to know what parents of deaf children most want to know and what they care about. It is also the key to gain parents’ trust and enthusiasm for language training cooperation.

So, when the head of a family learns that a child has hearing loss, what do they want to know most?

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1. What causes hearing loss?

The cause of hearing loss is what parents of deaf children want to know most. In fact, of all hearing-impaired children, only about half of hearing loss can be diagnosed.

Although pre pregnancy screening has greatly reduced the factors of congenital deafness, it is still unable to know the causes of some hearing loss children, which makes many parents of deaf children feel very confused, sometimes even worried for many years.

The true feelings of some parents of deaf children: “we hope that the child can grow up healthily and do our best for him. But when this unfortunate thing happens, we don’t even know how it is caused. Think over and over again whether there are any negligence in taking care of children, but how can’t you remember… ”

2. How to restore a positive attitude?

Children’s hearing loss for most families may be a hard to repair. Research shows that a deaf child with moderate hearing loss and a deaf child with severe hearing loss need long-term hearing intervention and speech rehabilitation before listening and speaking.

Whether the child is diagnosed with moderate or severe hearing loss, the degree of impact and emotional damage to the family is the same. Some parents of deaf children respond that if the hearing teacher can fully understand their mood and give more emotional support and comfort, the speech rehabilitation process of deaf children will be relatively smooth. If the attitude of the hearing teacher is very cold and they don’t pay attention to their mood, it is difficult for the deaf children and their parents to establish a trust relationship with the hearing teacher, which greatly reduces the effect of speech rehabilitation.

Therefore, it is very important to understand the parents’ mood when hearing the diagnosis results.

3. How to read and understand the audiogram?

Once it is known that the child suffers from hearing loss, parents need to accompany the child through the long process of diagnosis, intervention, evaluation and rehabilitation. Many years of experience make parents of deaf children understand that audiogram can reflect the hearing loss of deaf children most objectively. So, do parents want to read the audiogram and make their own diagnosis?

In fact, parents of deaf children don’t want to understand all kinds of curves and symbols, but want to fully understand the changes of hearing loss after each examination.

Therefore, it is necessary for audiologists to carefully explain the diagnosis results, changes and progress of hearing loss to parents of deaf children, so that parents of deaf children can fully feel the responsibility and enthusiasm of audiologists.

4. How to let children learn to listen and speak?

With the continuous development of hearing aid technology, cochlear implant and early diagnosis technology, both the deaf children with moderate or severe hearing loss can gradually learn to listen and speak under the active speech rehabilitation treatment. However, in addition to conventional speech training, parents also play an important role in hearing intervention and speech rehabilitation of deaf children.

On the one hand, audiologists need to fully understand the hearing loss of deaf children and make appropriate speech rehabilitation plans for them. On the other hand, audiologists should also help parents of deaf children understand the content and methods of speech rehabilitation, and establish effective cooperative relationship with parents of deaf children, so that deaf children can obtain the maximum effect of speech rehabilitation under long-term correct and effective stimulation methods. 。

5. Is ear disease related to hearing loss?

The long-term hearing loss of deaf children makes parents want to have a certain understanding of otology knowledge and hearing loss. Although this is a very complicated learning process, the listening teacher can draw some examples and charts