How can I tell if my baby is hearing impaired? How is hearing impairment caused?

How can I tell if my baby is hearing impaired? How is hearing impairment caused?

1.Sudden loud noises that do not respond to anything may be a hearing impairment. If your baby has these symptoms, it's likely that they are caused by a hearing abnormality. Early stage can achieve good results and avoid delaying the disease.

2.Withdrawn and unsociable may suffer from hearing impairment, and some children with hearing impairment, when they grow up, will be very withdrawn and unsociable because they cannot hear, and they are often mistaken for autism.

3.Insensitivity to ** can have a hearing impairment, and most babies are sensitive to**, especially rhythmic**. However, if the baby does not show enough enthusiasm for ** and cannot learn to beat the beat, then the baby's hearing may have some impairments.

4.Not being able to speak a single word may be a hearing impairment. If your baby has hearing abnormalities, he will have hearing impairment and will have words that cannot be said simply. Hearing abnormalities can seriously affect a child's physical and mental health, and early** can reduce the harm.

5.Hearing impairment may occur during the mother's childbirth, including during and after delivery, such as pre-eclampsia eclampsia, dystocia, premature birth, trauma during childbirth, and neonatal hypoxic asphyxia due to airway blockage, which may cause hearing loss in newborns.

6.Hearing impairment can be caused by substance abuse, and some of the causes of hearing loss in infants are acquired with inappropriate medications. After the baby is sick, parents should not use drugs indiscriminately based on their own experience, which may affect the baby's hearing development.

In addition, in terms of dose control, parents should also follow the doctor's instructions and cannot blindly increase the dose.

7.Hearing impairment may be an infectious factor, and rubella virus infection, cytomegalovirus infection, herpes simplex virus infection, toxoplasma infection, etc. during pregnancy may damage the baby's hearing, which can be avoided by vaccination during pregnancy.

8.Environmental factors, long-term living in a noisy environment without protection, hearing cells will gradually be damaged, and in the long run, tinnitus and hearing loss will occur.

You can go directly to the hospital for examination, and through some different sounds, coming from different positions, to determine the child's hearing, which is related to genes and the child's development.

It can produce some sounds next to their ears, and if the child has a strong sensitivity to these sounds, it means that the child is not hearing impaired; Psychological disorders may be preceded or later, and if the fetus does not grow healthily during development, it will cause this congenital hearing impairment, or due to some lesions in the nerve center of the brain, it will also lead to hearing impairment.

The cause of the baby's hearing impairment is likely to be caused by genetic factors, or it may be an infection during pregnancy, which leads to hearing problems. It may also be due to sudden factors caused by fat production and hypoxia preterm birth. In daily life, you can observe whether the baby will have a reaction to the sudden sound with his eyes closed, and if he has hearing impairment, he will not have these movements.

When your baby wakes up, he will turn his head to look at the place where the sound is coming from, and this reaction also indicates that he is not hearing impaired. You can also go to the hospital for a formal hearing screening.

Early detection of hearing impairment in children, early diagnosis, early prevention. It can be observed from the following points:

1. Do a good job in newborn hearing screening, including otoacoustic emission (OAE) and auditory brainstem response (ABR).

2. After 3 months of birth, when a normal baby hears a sound, especially the mother's voice, it will react late and look for the source of the sound.

About 3,6 months, it has the ability to orient the sound source.

4, 9 months to 18 months or so, you can imitate the voice of an adult, and you can say that you can rent a meaningful word.

5, 2 years old and above can speak meaningful words and phrases.

If your child does not meet any of the above points, he or she should go to a regular hospital for a hearing test.

The easiest way to do this is to rub your fingers next to your child's ears (not to be observed by your child's eyes) to see if they will be attracted and turn their heads.

It is necessary to understand the extent, nature and location of the baby's hearing impairment, and understand the **, intervention and ** training methods of hearing impairment. Hearing aids can be worn for the baby, and children with indications for surgery can undergo artificial eardrum implantation surgery, and auditory speech training will be carried out after surgery.

After wearing a hearing aid or cochlear implant, encourage your child to speak, conduct systematic, long-term and planned training, and practice good hygiene.

First go to the ENT department of a regular hospital to see a doctor, what is the diagnosis, try to treat it, if it is not good, face it calmly, and match it with hearing aids, and at the same time be patient, caring, and loving to the child, cultivate his self-care ability, especially in terms of safety issues, and cultivate his ability, after all, he is hearing weak.

For children with hearing impairments, because they can't feel the outside world, their world is very quiet, and their education can't just rely on words and deeds, so what are the common ways? Do we need to strengthen on this basis, so what are the general ways to deal with the education of children with hearing impairment? Take a look at the detailed analysis below!

How to educate children with hearing impairments.

1 Psychological counseling methods. This approach uses friendly, flexible, and appropriate language. Guide children with psychological disorders to express their inner distress, so that their pent-up feelings can be vented and channeled, and psychological pressure can be relieved.

At the same time, the facilitators teach new theories and methods to maintain mental health, help children with hearing impairment change their original thinking and behavior habits, re-establish correct views and attitudes towards themselves, others, and things, and re-determine their own behavior. For children with hearing impairment with common psychological disorders, group (group) psychological counseling methods can be used. However, in general, psychological counseling should be carried out on an individual basis.

Because, the same psychological disorder can have different causes.

2 Confidence training methods. It's a behavior. It sets up a situation for children with hearing impairment who have psychological impairments to practice roles, so that they can enhance their sense of self-confidence and gradually eliminate passive and anxious reactions.

For example, in response to the psychological disorder of some hearing-impaired children who are afraid to go to the store alone, teachers conduct simulated shopping exercises in the classroom. The teacher proposes some items as merchandise and pretends to be a salesperson. Then have students with mental disabilities play the role of customers to buy things.

When the student has successfully made a purchase, the student will play the role of a salesperson, and the teacher or other classmates will play the role of the customer. After simulating shopping experience in class, the teacher chooses the appropriate time and way to take the student to the store to actually shop, so as to further eliminate his fear and truly form his actual life ability.

Ways to enhance the education of children with hearing impairments.

Game**. This is also an act**. It applies play to the correction of psychological disorders in children with hearing impairment.

Play is an activity that all kinds of children like, and it is also a special basic activity for children to learn knowledge and understand things. According to this characteristic of children, they can freely express and vent their emotions through play. Teachers can analyze the causes of the psychological disorder, their symptoms and the degree of their psychological impairment according to the play activities they choose, their roles and performances in the games, and their attitudes towards others and toys.

On this basis, teachers need to carefully design some kind of play activities for children with hearing impairments who have psychological impairments to participate.

Therefore, for such a group of special children with hearing impairment, first solve their psychological problems, and then let them regain their self-confidence, so that they feel that their state is no different from normal children, so that they can strengthen education through the game to strengthen the **, so that the children can receive education knowledge in the game!

You can go to the hospital for a check-up.