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Hearing Impairment in Special Education

Hearing impairment is a disability that affects a child's educational performance, whether permanent or temporary. It is similar to deafness but does not require a total inability to hear sound. Hearing impairment causes difficulty in speech, writing, and acquiring knowledge due to limited auditory feedback. This can impair language development and the ability to communicate normally, negatively impacting social development and educational achievement. Several professionals can help children with hearing impairment, including audiologists, hearing loss teachers, speech-language pathologists, and interpreters. Early use of visual communication methods like sign language can help reduce the possibility of language delays.

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HEARING IMPAIRMENT IN SPECIAL EDUCATION | BY: REGINE KYLE B. REGIDA
HEARING IMPAIRMENT Hearing impairment is a disability, whether permanent or fluctuating, that affects a child’s educational performance. Though it is similar to category of deafness, it is not entirely the same. Deafness assures a total incapability to hear sound. On the other hand, hearing impairment exhibits the partial incapability to hear sound. Scientifically, a hearing loss that ranges above 90 decibels (unit of measurement for sound intensity) is generally considered as deafness. This makes that hearing loss that ranges below 90 decibels is classified as a hearing impairment.
Unfortunately, children experience difficulty succeeding academically because speech and writing limits their capability acquire knowledge. Accessing auditory feedback impairs their normal development of speech and language since they cannot hear sounds very well. Though intellegence doesn’t necessarily affect the child with hearing impairment, it limits his/her ability to speak, read, or write The ability to develop friendships is negatively affected since they can’t communicate normally which limits the activities they can do. Intelligence Social Development Educational Achievement Speech and Language IMPACT ON LEARNING
These are the persons who can help the child with hearing impairment by giving them the proper diagnosis, treatment, and therapy to help the child cope with the difficulties of not being able to hear sound like normal kids do. TEACHING STRATEGY 1 Professional Audiologist
These are the persons who can help the child with hearing impairment because they are a specially-trained educators who can provide educational support to the student as well as to the family of the student and the other educators looking forward for the child’s development. TEACHING STRATEGY 2 Hearing Loss Teacher
These are the persons who can help the child with hearing impairment through the gradual treatment for speech and language disorders by patiently teaching them. TEACHING STRATEGY 3 Speech-Language Pathologist
These are the persons who can help the child with hearing impairment because they are a specially-trained professionals that can relay messages to the student for communication processes through repetition, sign language, fingerspelling, body language, as well as verbal expression. TEACHING STRATEGY 4 Interpreter
Children with hearing impairment will find it even more difficult to learn vocabulary, grammar, word order, idiomatic expressions, and other aspects of verbal communication compared to those who have normal hearing. It is essential for children who suffer from this impairment to have early, consistent, and conscious use of visible communication modes such as sign language, fingerspelling, and cued speech and/or amplification and aural/oral training to help reduce the possibilty of experiencing language delay.
OTHER TEACHING STRATEGIES: Services of an interpreter for students who use one or more visual communication modes. Favorable seating in the class to facilitate speechreading. Captioned films or videos. Assistance of a notetaker who takes written notes for the student during sessions. Regular speech, language, and auditory training from a specialist. Use of amplification systems. Assistance of the teacher and peers in communicating by using sign languages.
CREDITS: This presentation template was created by Slidesgo, including icons by Flaticon, and infographics & images by Freepik Many thanks! HEARING IMPAIRMENT IN SPECIAL EDUCATION Submitted by: Regine Kyle B. Regida BSE English 2 Submitted to: Prof. Rosanna Calanasan Foundations of Special and Inclusive Education