Hearing Impaired Children

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Hearing loss is any degree of impairment of the ability to apprehend sound. Hearing loss, also known as hearing impairment, is a partial or total inability to hear. A deaf person has little to no hearing. Hearing loss may occur in one or both ears. Hearing loss is bilateral and permanent is estimated to be present in 1.2 to 5.7 per 1000 live births. Ruben [1] stated that hearing loss (HL) during infancy and early childhood affects speech and language development by restricting a child’s access to speech and language input and in adults it can cause work related difficulties.
The major effect of hearing impairment is the loss of audibility for some or all of the important acoustic speech cues. Hearing impaired children commonly have voice, articulation, …show more content…

Hearing aids provide limited help the people with hearing loss.one of the most recent intervention for improving listening, speech and language skills in children with cochlear implant.

A Cochlear Implant (CI) is an electronic device, part of which is surgically implanted into the cochlea and the remaining part worn externally. The CI functions as a sensory aid, converting mechanical sound energy into a coded electric stimulus that bypasses damaged or missing hair cells of the cochlea and directly stimulates remaining auditory neural elements. CIs also provide children with critical auditory sensory input necessary for the development of speech and language production.

Cochlear implants (CIs) enable auditory perception and speech production gains are observed in children with hearing impairment who use cochlear implants. Improvement of language skills is also viewed as a very important goal of cochlear implantation by