What are the manifestations of abnormal hearing in my baby?

Hearing loss, when the mother calls the child, the baby can not respond immediately to the mother, the surrounding environment is also blurred, and the language ability is also very poor.

Pay attention to the child's response and pronunciation, which should be distinguished from autism, and the child can be checked for hearing problems in hospitals and hearing centers.

The hospital screening will not pass, and the child will not respond to the voice.

Children may not be able to accurately identify sounds and speech**. Children who may not be able to distinguish weak speech from background noise are suitable for hearing aids, as hearing loss may occur in good ears or worsen in bad ears, so continuous hearing tracking and timely intervention are important.

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.