Are hearing impaired children prone to child development issues?

Question

im refering to children either born deaf or those who become deaf at a very younge age. this is for a pysch paper and im trying to prove that : yea hearing impaired children often are more seceptible (Sp?) to developmental issues.

Answer 1

you mean behavior issues? or language issues or physically impaired issues. First look at cause of deafness: if caused by premature or complications at birth, over-oxygen or medications to keep child alive..then possibly "issues" in learning/or physical disabil. depend..If U R talking about behavior; look at parenting. Deaf children of deaf parents, (not always genetic),do better behavior wise and in reading and Lang because their parent begin signing to them as soon as they are born. They explain everything and kids usually very bright and do well in school. Hearing parents usually go through hell going doctor to doctor, school to school, program to program looking for a cure and trying to decide whether to sign or teach them to speak..meanwhile the kids suffer while doctors and well meaning teachers pull in every direction. Very small percent of hearing parents really gain good comand of sign language: can communicate daily basics but not sit down and tutor the kid past about 3rd grade.The ones who go become interpreter for their kids- wow those kids acheve. Also Deaf parents do a much better job helping at home! (I've taught Deaf elementary school 26 yrs) Ask away!

Answer 2

Well yes and no. For me (I am hearing impaired) I was born normal, but i was already prone to sickness and had constant ear infections which caused me to lose about 95 % of my hearing in my right ear. As a baby my growth was stunted due to over sized adnoids (like tonsils in the nose) which made it hard to breath, thus no growth. When those were finally removed (troubles with doctors, whole other nightmare) i grew about 6 inches in a matter of weeks. Really the only thing wrong with me developing-wise is my inner ear and the nerves behind my ear drum, but those were due to the chronic ear infections from bad nasal congestion. I don't think that because of my hearing loss I've had developmental issues, and with my experince researching about other children I think a completly deaf child will have no more developmental issues than a child with perfect hearing.

Hope you can understand all this, it's late and I really shouldn't be answering questions when im this tired! lol

Answer 3

Your question is too vague. What development issues are you referring to? Are you talking mental, emotional, learning or physical development issues?

I lost my hearing at 10 months of age. I'm profoundly deaf. My education background is of the oral method where I was taught how to speak, lip-read and listen with hearing aids starting toddler age (18 months old). I attended hearing classes half the day starting first grade and continued going to both special ed. and hearing classes up to sixth grade. Actually the special ed. classes is more of for communication purposes, to help us deaf children get all the information correctly at a much more comfortable environment.

Learning-wise, I excelled above average than my hearing peers. So that was never an issue. I've not had any physical problems due to deafness. My hearing loss remained constant throughout my life. Social-wise, I had no problem making friends, both deaf and hearing. Emotionally, I grew up well-adjusted. I came from a very loving and healthy home/family and wasn't treated any different than my hearing sister. I understood my family when they spoke to me, so there weren't any communication problems.

You really need to find the source of the development issues and be careful not to be falsely mislead to think that deafness could be the cause of it. You have to also look at other contributing factors such as the emotional and mental stability of the family, the quality of education and the quality of the interaction of the parent and the deaf child when it came to their schooling and so on.

Let's say that you have a deaf child that went to a state deaf school where ASL is the main mode of communication and that deaf child's parents never learnt the sign language thus furthering isolating the relationship between the child and parent. So yes I'm sure the deaf child may have some emotional issues with regard to the family situation, but is deafness the actual cause here? It may seem like it, but it's really not the case here; it's really the parent's responsibility to establish regular communication and understanding between them and the child. Their laziness and refusal to change (i.e. learning sign) could possibly result in the child's emotional issues.

I recommend asking your question at this deaf forum http://www.alldeaf.com I'm sure you can get a great discussion going on there with some good answers as opposed to here where there are hardly enough deaf people to give you good answers.

Answer 4

This became unquestionably a examine paper I did to earn my BA. the terrific thank you to instruct all people a distant places language is to make sure they have a solid expertise of their very own language first. Too many D/deaf little ones circulate to college with little or no language. they're then thrown into studying English on the comparable time as they learn ASL. this form they're attempting to entice close the two languages. ASL is their organic language and that they %. up on a thank you to apply it, yet they are actually not defined why. In each and every college room interior the U. S. little ones are studying approximately English grammar. have you ever heard of a grade college coaching its D/deaf little ones approximately ASL grammar? If our schools commence with the basics for toddlers to understand why they sign the way they do, that is going to provide them a assessment to make. the comparable way ESL scholars use their first language to assist them understand English. i desire that's sensible!

Answer 5

Yes for various reasons. The most obvious reason is that we develop by taking things in through our senses. When one of those senses are down it's one less that can take in information.

ANother one is very subtle. We tend to treat people w/ "disabilities" special in general as a society. I've seen various people do amazingf and extrodinary things just because they were not catered to and therefore had to learn alternate ways to.