What are the signs of hearing loss in early childhood?

In clinical practice, mild to moderate hearing loss in babies often affects the pronunciation of infants and young children during speech development in the early stage, and there may be slurred speech, which can be mainly manifested as stuttering with age development. Infants and young children with severe or very severe hearing loss are likely to have poor language development and even not be able to speak because they cannot hear sounds or learn language. Babies and toddlers with poor hearing have many other manifestations, such as lack of concentration, irritability, or tantrums, silence and lack of talking, which may be a personality problem, but in fact it is not, they are often unable to interact and communicate with others due to hearing reasons.

It is recommended that when a child is found to have similar symptoms, the child should be taken to the hospital for a check-up in time.

The symptoms of hearing impairment in children are diverse, according to the different stages of hearing impairment, they are divided into pre-verbal deafness and post-verbal deafness, and the early symptoms are different, pre-verbal deafness may have weak response to sound, delayed speech development, and post-verbal deafness may have speech interruptions, repeated questions, poor sound source localization, etc.

If the newborn is deaf and congenitally deaf, parents may find that the child has a weak or poor response to sound, poor sound positioning ability, delayed speech function development, lack of language expression ability, and even at the age of 1 1/2 to 2 years old, he can only use some simple words such as "mom" and "dad", and cannot accurately use words to describe things or cannot describe things in simple sentences.

If it is hearing impairment after normal speech function in childhood, it is post-verbal deafness, and there may be repeated interruptions in speech, repeated questions, love to use good ears to listen to people or listen**, poor acoustic response in the affected ear, inability to locate the source of sound, etc.

Parents should pay attention to their children's hearing problems, and after the symptoms of hearing loss appear, they should visit the ENT department for specialist evaluation as soon as possible, detect it as soon as possible, intervene as soon as possible, and remove the adverse effects of hearing impairment in time to improve the prognosis of hearing impairment.

If the child's hearing is not good, then he is very insensitive to some sounds, and often his eyes are straight and his response is slow, so that it can be judged that it is a hearing problem.

Mild hearing impairment: Children with mild hearing impairment can clearly hear whispers in a quiet environment, but may feel that the other person's voice is muffled in a noisy environment or when talking at a distance. For children with mild hearing impairment, appropriate audiology interventions can be carried out according to the situation, such as improving the acoustic environment, talking close to the child, having the child sit in the front row during class, wearing a wireless frequency modulation system (FM), etc.

Moderate hearing impairment: Children with moderate hearing impairment may find it difficult to speak in close proximity. In a quiet environment, if what is being talked about is known, the child can understand the conversation within 1 meter; In the presence of background noise, it will be difficult to understand the spoken conversation.

Children with this level of hearing impairment generally have affected speech and language development, as well as speech and expression disorders, delayed speech or grammar deficits, communication and social skills, and self-confidence. Children with moderate hearing loss often use hearing aids to improve their hearing.

severe hearing impairment; Children with severe hearing impairment are unable to hear normal speech and their spoken and language does not develop actively, so they must use hearing aids.

Extremely severe hearing impairment:

Children with severe hearing impairment cannot hear speech and environmental sounds, and are close to total deafness.

For children with very severe hearing impairment, the best option is to have a cochlear implant as early as possible.

In fact, during pregnancy, women will worry about whether there will be problems with the development of the child, if they can do a good job of prenatal check-up on time to ensure that the child's development is not problematic, until the birth of the newborn, many mothers will worry about the baby's English hearing abnormalities. If it is a newborn baby with abnormal English hearing, this kind of physical and mental health growth and development of the baby is particularly harmful, because as the saying goes, ten deaf and nine dumb, in other words, if there is an abnormal English hearing, the growth and development of the baby's language function is particularly harmful.

In fact, newborn babies can carry out hearing tests at the age of two to seven days, and when they go to the hospital to do a good job of technical and professional equipment testing, they can grasp whether the baby's English hearing is normal. However, many county-level general hospitals are not able to carry out this kind of examination, because the cost of their own examination is relatively high, so is there a good way for mothers to test whether the baby's English hearing is normal? 1-3 months behavior:

Blinking, waking up, and being able to react to sudden noises can have a certain effect, <>

such as crying and fussing, etc.; Gradually, there are different expressions for different sounds, and the eyes and the top of the head have a precise positioning concept of heavy sounds. 3-6 months behavior: the head can gradually change to the direction of the sound source (4 months gradually); Let him have a reflection and be able to identify the mother's ringing behavior in 6-9 months:

The head can be turned briskly to the source of the sound; It also gradually responds to the sounds of animals, and gradually notices the sound of cars and rain. Able to understand some words, such as "goodbye" can wave hands and other 9-12 months personal behavior indicates: will call the "mother" head can turn to the bottom or side to find the source of the sound, singing to him will shake his head during pregnancy close and loud ** prenatal education: some pregnant mothers in order to be able to develop the child's ** cells in the fetal period, buy a lot of listening to light ** tapes, amplify the sound of the tape recorder every day to listen, <>

Sometimes, they even put the tape recorder on their stomachs immediately. After the newborn is born, the hearing test shows that the baby's auditory nerve has already been damaged during the fetal period. Pick out your child's ears often:

Some parents like to pick their children's ears often, but in fact, the slightest carelessness or accidental impact can cause damage to the ear drum in the deepest part of the baby's ear canal. At this time, germs can easily take advantage of the weakness and cause susceptibility, causing hearing damage to children. Living environment noise:

If the surrounding environment is too noisy, or if you often take your child to a noisy area, it may cause damage to your child's English hearing.

The DPOAE test is very effective. It may be congenital dysplasia, exposure to toxic substances, or it may be that a pregnant woman is taking medicine indiscriminately while pregnant.

Generally, when a child is born, the hospital will do a hearing screening.