Listening takes lots of energy. Children with hearing loss may be extra tired at the end of a busy school day. Why is that? The job of understanding and processing the speech of parents, teachers and friends that’s been “filtered” through a hearing loss, especially in a noisy environments, requires a lot of work all through the day.
Hearing loss happens in the ears, but the real action is in the brain. The brain makes sense of the words picked up by the ears.
- Children are learning 24/7. Children with hearing loss should be fit as early as possible so they have access to all those sounds around them.
- A clear sound signal helps children learn.
- Having a hearing loss can be taxing – it takes hard work to listen. The brain needs the best, clearest signal to understand what is being said.
- Hearing aids must be worn all the while the child is awake – at school and at home. Having a clean comfortable signal provides relief – the child can relax and not work so hard to listen.
Remember, when a child has a hearing loss only part of the speech accurately reach the brain. Noise is even more disruptive for children who have a hearing loss. It takes extra work to follow speech when the brain has to guess and fill in the blanks. But new hearing aid technology, properly fit and used on a full-time basis, brings in a clean full speech signal for easier hearing and relaxed learning.
Click Here to learn more about pediatric hearing services.
No comments:
Post a Comment