What about deaf children

When a child is detected to have congenital hearing impairment, many parents can’t accept it for a while. They don’t know what to do for the child and how to do it?

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What is the cause of congenital deafness?

About 60% of congenital hearing disorders belong to hereditary deafness. About 90% of hereditary deafness can be diagnosed by gene screening. It should be noted that about 25% of congenital hearing impairment is caused by cytomegalovirus infection, which can be avoided.

2 is the hearing aid good or the cochlear implant good?

Foreign studies show that cochlear implant is more beneficial for the development of oral ability of hearing impaired children. But for the hearing impaired children, whether the cochlear implant is better than the hearing aid or not has not been determined.

According to the guideline of cochlear implant in China, it is suggested that: according to the comprehensive audiological evaluation, children with severe deafness who wear hearing aids for 3-6 months are ineffective or ineffective, cochlear implant should be carried out; children with extremely severe deafness can consider direct cochlear implant.

How to understand the hearing aid?

There are two ways for parents to understand the hearing aid of hearing impaired children: 1) hearing loss simulator; 2) hearing threshold test.

The hearing loss simulator can help parents to understand the general listening situation of the hearing impaired children by comparing the sounds before and after the hearing aid. By comparing the threshold changes before and after hearing aid, parents can understand the changes of hearing effect of hearing impaired children.

How long should hearing aids be worn every day?

Theoretically, children with weak hearing should wear hearing aids except for sleep time. The wearing time of hearing impaired children at different ages is slightly different. For example, children under 3 years old usually sleep for 13-16 hours, so it is generally recommended that children with hearing impairment within 6 months wear 7-8 hours a day; children between 6 months and 3 years old wear 9-11 hours a day.

How long can children’s hearing aids be used?

The service life of hearing aids is affected by many factors. Generally speaking, the service life of children’s hearing aids is about 4-5 years. When hearing aid products are updated, children with weak hearing are generally advised to change to the latest hearing aid products. In addition, if the hearing loss of hearing impaired children shows gradual decline, when the hearing loss reaches a certain level, it may be necessary to replace a higher power hearing aid, or even cochlear implant.

How to maintain children’s hearing aids?

The drying box is an essential daily maintenance device. When the hearing impaired children rest, the hearing aid also enters the drying box to “rest”. In addition to the drying box, parents also need to learn how to use all kinds of hearing aid accessories, such as lanyard, microphone net cover and battery measuring appliances. Generally, it is recommended that parents of hearing-impaired children should check the hearing aid in the morning every day and use it only after confirming that the hearing aid works normally. In case of hearing aid failure, parents should seek the help of audiologists in time.

Does the child need any other assistive devices?

No matter what kind of hearing aid or cochlear implant children wear, they need to use other assistive devices. In theory, by the age of four, every child with normal hearing should have a total vocabulary of about 46 million. However, even the hearing impaired children who choose hearing aids or cochlear implants can not reach the level of vocabulary that their peers should have. Because 70% of the time in the daily listening environment has competitive speech signals, the low SNR will affect the hearing clarity of the children with weak listening. Remote microphone technology can improve this situation.

What level of communication can children achieve?

Theoretically, the recognition rate of monosyllabic words after hearing aid should reach 100%. In fact, due to the various pathological changes of hearing system and the limitation of the development of hearing aid technology, the speech recognition rate of hearing aid children may not reach the theoretical level. Generally speaking, audiologists will make the monosyllabic speech recognition rate of weak hearing children reach about 80% through appropriate debugging. Because in the actual communication process, context cues and weak listening children’s lip reading ability can also help communication.

9 how to assess speech and hearing?

The premise of judging whether the speech and hearing ability of hearing impaired children are normal or not is regular and standard speech hearing assessment. The final assessment results need to be combined with other systemic assessments, such as intelligence assessment, cognitive assessment, motor development assessment, etc.

How to promote the development of oral English?

1) parents need to be a “real-time commentator” to explain all kinds of life scenes for the weak hearing children in real time, which is very important for the development of their oral ability.

2) parents can often sing to the weak children. Melodic speech signals such as songs or operas can stimulate the bilateral auditory nerve and auditory center.

3) parents can often study for weak children. Choose the right books according to the age of the hearing impaired children, and promote the development of the overall speech ability.

Parents should not be too anxious if their child is detected with hearing impairment. As long as we adhere to scientific rehabilitation treatment, children can also integrate into normal life.

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