Mediate the psychological problems of deaf children

The speech, psychology and intelligence of deaf children are interrelated, influenced and developed together. The delay of any aspect will undoubtedly affect the healthy development of other aspects. Among the many factors that affect the healthy psychological development of deaf children, hearing impairment is undoubtedly the cause of the expansion of children’s abnormal psychological problems, followed by language communication barriers and other harmful factors.

The psychological and behavioral development disorders of deaf children are mainly manifested in the following aspects

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Emotional development disorder: due to the influence of hearing loss, deaf children have obvious defects in their understanding of external things. The understanding of language has difficulties that normal people can’t imagine. A deaf child with an average hearing loss of more than 55 decibels will miss most of the language information in language communication. Most of the deaf children are very slow in language development. On the contrary, deaf children are very imaginative and observant. In the understanding of language, deaf children often use lip reading to capture language information. Visual compensation plays an important role in the understanding of deaf children. They often focus on observing with their eyes, so they often behave as abnormal silence and silence. Deaf children have some difficulties in expressing their needs and emotions due to their hearing and language barriers. They often feel not understood and accepted by their surroundings. They are obviously not sensitive enough to understand other people or something, and even have some difficulties. If these difficulties are not understood by the surrounding environment for a long time, or even criticized by some people, emotional development obstacles will gradually appear.

Psychological needs: many deaf children have a strong psychological dependence on their parents. Deaf children need more emotional communication because of the language barrier. Some deaf children have obvious stubborn and creative performance, which can be related to the lack of emotional communication.

Impulsive behavior: it is manifested in families lacking parental care. The impulsive behavior of deaf children is obvious. It may be that deaf children hope to cause parental care.

Social communication difficulties: hearing and language disorders will hinder social communication. Deaf children are often difficult to make friends with normal children of the same age, and they are willing to stay at home for fun or choose other deaf children to communicate. This will further alienate them from normal children, resulting in low self-esteem, lack of self-confidence, emotional instability, and easy to lose temper.

Learning disabilities: the biggest problem faced by deaf children is education. They have unimaginable difficulties in learning. In addition to listening language barriers, there is also a significant lack of attention. Because they need to be very attentive to listen and observe, they are prone to fatigue. They often have the phenomenon of inattention, inattention and slow response. They are not interested in learning, or even tired of learning.

The psychology of deaf children has its particularity. Some deaf children are on guard against adults. As a parent, we must be good at observation and explore the inner world of deaf children by means that are easy to accept. Communicate with them in a way they enjoy and understand. Parents should also fully understand the difficulties faced by deaf children, and at the same time realize that deaf children have the same understanding, emotion and will as normal children. Parents of deaf children should pay attention to creating a caring and understanding environment for their children, not easily define their children’s character and behavior, and not easily lose their temper with their children. We should encourage them to communicate with normal children, cultivate their sense of social identity, avoid doting and unprincipled accommodation at home, and do not neglect the care and love for deaf children. Family members should intentionally do more language exchanges with deaf children, play games with deaf children, and carry out necessary outdoor activities; they should also pay great attention to the cultivation of emotional exchanges with them, so that they can feel warmth and love, and pay attention to the cultivation of their will, courage to face setbacks and determination to overcome difficulties.