There are many factors that influence the way that your child develops, but without the ability to hear their speech, their language development will suffer greatly. Speech does not only refer to the formation of recognisable words, it refers to the ability to make sound; without hearing this development of sound cannot progress.
As humans we use language as our basic communication tool, it allows us to exchange our ideas and share our emotions with those around us. In order for us to be able to use language we need to have stored the sounds that we need in our memories so that we can remember them and use them as we need. If we have not had the opportunity to store those sounds because we haven’t been able to hear them, our communication options become limited. It is the faculty of hearing that bears the greatest influence on how we learn to read and write, much more that the faculty of sight. A blind child has no difficulty in developing language unlike a hearing impaired child.
Language Development
Most children come into the world listening to the sounds that surround them, even before birth they are soothed by the sound of the mother’s heartbeat in the womb. They start by making what are termed as ‘natural sounds’, these are the precursors to speech. Children learn through copying the sounds that we make. They listen to our voices and try to make the same sounds that we use when we form our words; it is how their language develops. Take away hearing and they are lacking the foundation upon which to build any form of language development.
Learning Through Stimulation
There are things that you can do to encourage language development in your children all based around using the things that they hear as well as see to stimulate the sounds that they make.
This post is written for www.yourhearing.co.uk, the number one website dedicated to offering the best free and impartial advice to people suffering from all stages of hearing loss.
is that K and baby G in the first picture? they look so cute together, and Baby G on the piano! hearing is indeed one of the most wonderful gifts ever given to us.
ReplyDeleteLove this post with your precious children and illuminating advice. I love the years of discovery with my grands.
ReplyDeletebake here again Che from PBH :) learning and discovery is such a wonderful joy
ReplyDeleteMemory game is one of my kids favorite. My daughter is 8 already but she still likes this kind of stuff.
ReplyDeleteGreat post I found it very interesting, even though my baby is grown up. Baby's fascinate me though, they are so sweet, smart and absorbent!
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