Hearing Impaired 7 year old

Tricia · Post by **Tricia** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:10 am

Hi there,

This child has had a severe hearing impairment which is now mild. Her reading and her speech are both very delayed and her mum is wondering how to help her.

My gut feeling is to use her hearing and her her lip-reading ability to associate sounds with symbols and continue as you would with a hearing child but I wanted to run that past the experts with this age group.

Does anyone here have experience using "all through the word" phonics with a child with similar needs?

Her mum is trained in ThatReadingThing so understands the principles and is excited about how they might help her daughter catch up with her peers.

Any help much appreciated!

kenm · Post by **kenm** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:45 pm

Relevant information that an expert (probably not me) will find useful.

1 How old is she now?

2 How bad was her impairment?

3 When was her hearing improved (how might be interesting also)?

kenm · Post by **kenm** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:59 pm

There is a Wikipedia article about language acquisition.* What I have not yet discovered is whether there is a critical or optimal period for easy acquisition of grammar and, if so, whether it is later in infants whose initial deafness is corrected.

Post by **Debbie Hepplewhite** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 10:27 am

Frances5 - thank you for this link.

I think many people should find it very interesting and very easy to read and understand.

Tricia · Post by **Tricia** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:55 am

Thank you Frances. I'll pass this information onto her mum.

Hearing Impaired 7 year old

Hearing Impaired 7 year old

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