How Hearing Loss Affects Language

• Describe how hearing loss affects language and speech development in children o Hearing loss affects the development of language and speech by limiting the child to auditory access to speech sounds. Without these sounds, the child does not have the ability to gain phonological awareness, meanings of words or sounds and the ability to communicate with their family members verbally. In class we read different articles about different types of hearing loss (conductive, mild to severe, minimal sensorineural etc.). Reading these article and discussing them in class has helped me to achieve this object. Throughout this semester, I was able to gain more knowledge on how each type of hearing loss affects language and speech development in children

In the blog project we had to be careful of personal biases, since we don’t have children with hearing loss or know first hand experience on how to relate to a family with a child with hearing loss. Watching the videos in class, such as Sound and Fury, helped us to understand different viewpoints of a family who has deaf children and hearing children. Reading certain articles and textbook chapters, especially the AVT chapter, can show signs of personal biases as the authors and researchers think a certain type of therapy is better to develop spoken language than

During this lecture I was able to learn about the different family needs and emotions with parents, grandparents and siblings. Each family member goes through a different coping process, whether that is anger, shame or guilt, but each family member also deals with this with different coping strategies. During this lecture I also learned the hardships that the families may go though as a whole or individually. Besides this lecture, watching Sound and Fury and the interviews with clients also helped to achieve this objective. With both of these examples, I got to listen to families who had first hand experience with their child going through the process of spoken language acquisitions and they stated the problems they faced and got through together.

• Propose and value the understudied areas of inquiry in the field of childhood hearing loss o This objective was met through reading articles and textbook readings. During our article reading when each of us having to read and interpret articles with different types of hearing loss, I got to learn about areas in childhood hearing loss that are understudied and need more research. For instance, in the article about children with minimal hearing loss, little research was conducted because children with moderate to profound hearing loss is much more prevalent and researched than children with minimal hearing