Speech delays and hidden hearing losses that are not noticed in time, are covered up, and are postponed by saying \u201cthey will speak anyway\u201d cause a massive avalanche effect in the child\u2019s life. This condition, which appears in the preschool period only as irritability, introversion, or incompatibility with playgroups, emerges with a much harsher face when primary school age begins. A child who has not properly established the basic building blocks of language and cannot distinguish sounds experiences tremendous difficulty while learning to read and write.<\/p>\n
Because they cannot fully understand what is said, they quickly fall behind academically, their abstract thinking skills become blunted, and they cannot settle mathematical concepts in their mind. Because they cannot communicate, they become rapidly isolated from their social environment and friends, and their self-confidence suffers deep wounds. However, children who receive the correct diagnosis before the first six months of life, are fully fitted with devices, and are included in a strong rehabilitation process accompanied by a loving and conscious family can completely close that great gap between themselves and their normally hearing peers by the time they reach primary school desks. With a correct clinical approach, unwavering family support, and the right steps taken in a race against time, it is definitely possible for every child to reach their own potential and freely make their own voice heard in that colorful world of sounds.<\/p>\n
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The relationship between speech delay and hearing in children is based on a perfectly functioning stimulus-response mechanism; a child can never learn, imitate, or transform sounds they cannot hear into meaningful speech. Complete hearing is the most fundamental prerequisite for healthy language development. In children whose verbal communication skills lag behind their peers, who do […]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hearing-loss"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emelugur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emelugur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emelugur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emelugur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emelugur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emelugur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3927,"href":"https:\/\/emelugur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923\/revisions\/3927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emelugur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emelugur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emelugur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emelugur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}