Why We Must Prevent Children’s Hearing Loss?
In the first few years of a child’s life, hearing is an important area where it plays a critical role in kids emotional, cognitive and social development. This is why even a mild or partial hearing loss can affect a child’s ability to develop proper speech and language skill. The good news is, the impact of children’s hearing loss can be overcome if they are detected early. The ideal time is by the time a baby is 3 months old.
Importance Of Children’s Hearing Test.
Having a hearing test (Newborn Hearing Screening) to be carried out soon after birth can help identify most babies with significant hearing loss.. There’s a chance that a hearing issue could go on undetected for months or even years. We recommend parents must have a routine hearing tests for their children after the newborn hearing screening. The ideal time for subsequent screenings shall be done when the child enters preschool and primary school. These tests help children to pick up any issues that have been missed or if they’re slowly getting worse. The reason behind this is some hearing loss is developed or acquired after birth.
Children’s hearing tests are important and identifying hearing problems as early as possible can help to remove stuntedness in a child’s life. Early hearing loss can be compensated with effective treatment if any problems or issues are detected and managed accordingly by an audiologist. Early diagnosis can assist you and your child to have tailored special hearing aids that they may need.
Causes Of Children’s Hearing Loss
Do you know that children’s hearing loss is quite a common birth defect? It affects about 3 to 5 out of every 1,000 babies. Many reasons can lead to children’s hearing loss and there’s about half the time, no cause is found.
While genetic factors can cause congenital hearing loss, it can also be caused by other things such as infection during pregnancy, injury at birth, premature birth and other health conditions. Bacterial infections like meningitis or measles, exposure to loud noises or ear infections can cause acquired hearing loss.
Symptoms of Children’s Hearing Loss
It is not easy to identify possible hearing loss in children but we have a few guidelines to help parents detect a possible acquired hearing loss in children:
- They can hear some of the time and then not respond at other times, especially without visual cues.
- They say “What?” or “Ah?” more often.
- They preferred louder TV and radio volume than any other members of the family or they preferred to sit closer to the TV at the normal volume
- They do not respond well to teachers and classmates in school.
- They cannot differentiate or localize the source of sound direction correctly.
- They complain the ear is itchy or painful.
- They always appeared as not paying attention in class and typically learn things slower than their peers.
- They may have slower speech development and are not able to express well with speech.
- Their speech may have pronunciation/articulation errors.
- They have poor academic performance.
If your child is suffering from hearing-related issues, contact SoundLife Hearing today for a consultation.
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