What are the symptoms of hearing impairment in babies?

A baby's development is multifaceted, including the development of hearing, and many babies also face hearing impairment. The signs of a baby's hearing impairment are very obvious. A child's long-term slow response to other people's words may be due to hearing impairment.

1. Turn up the TV volume

When watching TV or listening to the radio, you sit very close to the TV or radio, or like to turn up the volume very loudly.

2. Conversation

When children talk to others, they have the habit of keeping their eyes fixed on the speaker's mouth. This is a form of "lip reading" unique to deaf people. When talking to children, they often ask "what" or "say that again" or act as if they didn't hear clearly.

3. Slow response

When the child is called, he or she does not respond or responds slowly, and has poor ability to determine the location of the sound source. If when a child is called from his right side, he cannot turn his head or body accurately to the direction of the person calling him, but turns to the opposite or some other direction.

4. Pronunciation

Pronunciation is inaccurate, speech is unclear, and the vowels are heavy. Parents often mistakenly believe that their children have problems with their pronunciation organs. A child's inaccurate pronunciation and unclear speech are actually unique manifestations of sensorineural hearing loss.

5. Tips:

When a child is 2 years old and still cannot express his or her needs or understand what adults say, he or she may have hearing problems. If children with hearing impairment can be identified early, they can receive treatment and training early, and the treatment will be simpler. It can completely restore the hearing of some children, so that they can use the residual hearing to learn language and will not become unable to speak in the future.