Does anybody out there have a child/children with hearing impairment?

Question

I have a 10 year old who is hearing impaired and I was just interested if anybody had any parenting tips?

Answer 1

My boyfriends mum said to email her on:

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She has a hearing impairment and has 3 children with hearing impairments 1st one deaf in one ear 2nd child my boyfriend is profoundly deaf and the 3rd child is severely deaf.

She said to email her and she can help you alot i promise you her children now in there 20's are amazing. 2 of them totally rely on there hearing aids and lip reading and facial expressions.

Promise me you will email her i know she can help.

Answer 2

You deal with discipline the same as with a non hearing impaired child. The communication is different. Do you use sign language? Does he read lips? Raised voices or speaking more slowly will do more harm than good to his and your ability to communicate. You need to make sure he is looking at you when you need to speak with him. It would also be a good idea to help him find friends who are in similar situations. If he is considered legally deaf, there is quite a "culture" around deafness that you might explore.

Answer 3

I don't have a child of my own but I teach a child with a hearing impairment. My advice from my experience would be to set your groundrules as you would with any other child. the boy in my class is spoilt because of his needs and as a consequence is not a very nice child. His mum gives into his demands and he expects me to do the same.

All children need to know the boundaries and I don't suppose your's is any different. Good luck, being a parent is never easy .

Answer 4

I don't have a child but i myself has had a hearing impairment since i was born and i think the best think to do is treat them as you would any other child the only difference would be to take into consideration the fact the he has this problem when communicating, he still a child in the end just with a bigger hurdle. anther thing is if you need to extra time with him to improve his speech or help his development do it, in the end it would mean so much to him,

Answer 5

my daughter had terrible hearing when she was 18months old, when she spoke she only said the beginning and end of the word, she kept missing out the middle, so it was very difficult to understand her. We were told it was ok and that she would talk in her own time, i then just be chance met a wonderful doctor who told me she had blue ear, which was similar to glue ear except the inner ear had started to bleed because of infection and the blood then made the inner ear look blue.
we went to see a consultant who decided to place gromits in her ears, the difference in her hearing after they were fitted was amaising. she could hear brilliantly and within a couple of weeks was speaking normally. maybe gormits would be the answer for your 10 yr old?

Answer 6

i have a child but his hearing is fine.however my husband nearly died at 6 months with meningitis.he is now profoundly deaf and was one of the first in scotland to receive a cochlear implant over 10 years ago. he said it was hard as well as easy when he was a child, hard because he lived in his own world but easy as his mum gave him all the time and patience in the world in order for him to deal with his disability. my husband has said give a lot of patience, time for the tears when the little one cries because people think they are daft and plenty of support. my husband says this is what made him the man he is today. he is now a fully qualified engineer with a first class honours degree in a class of able bodied people. and im proud of him for this as it cannot be easy for anyone to live in a silent world for 15 years.

Answer 7

i imagine you want to initiate making a music "hola," and "l. a. lechuga." possibly in case you sing extremely, she will be able to love your voice a lot that she will be able to bypass on to the subsequent position on the map. Your voice is the major to her heart!