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Dinesh Kumar, Lovely Professional University Unit 10: Speech and Hearing Impaired: Definition, Types, Characteristics

Unit 10: Speech and Hearing Impaired: Definition, Notes

Types, Characteristics

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
10.1 Definition: Speech Impairment
10.2 Types of Speech Impairment
10.3 Characteristics Speech Impaired Children
10.4 Definition: Hearing Impairment
10.5 Different Types of Hearing Impairment
10.6 Characteristics of Hearing Impaired Children
10.7 Summary
10.8 Keywords
10.9 Review Questions
10.10 Further Readings

Objectives

The objectives of this unit can be summarized as below:
• to define the speech impairment.
• to discuss the types of speech impairment.
• to describe the characteristics of impaired children.
• to define the hearing impairment.
• to describe the different types of hearing impairment.
• to explain the characteristics of hearing impaired children.

Introduction

Despite the availability of much WHO information on the magnitude and causes of blindness and
strategies for their prevention, policy-makers and health providers in many countries are evidently
not fully aware of available eye-care interventions, their cost–effectiveness and their potential to
prevent or treat the 80% of global blindness that is avoidable.
Students who are classified as visually impaired will fall into one of two classes. The first, and less
severe, class of visual impairments is low vision. Students who are classified as low vision use sight
to learn, but their disability interferes with functioning. The second class of visual impairments is
blindness, and students who are blind use their touch and hearing to function each day. For any of
these students, routines and specific accommodations are very important in the classroom. We shall
prevention and teaching strategies of visual impairment.

10.1 Definition: Speech Impairment

The impairment of speech articulation, voice, fluency, or the impairment language comprehension
and/oral expression or the impairment of the use of a spoken or other symbol system. Might be
characterized by an interruption in the flow or rhythm of speech, such as stuttering, which is called
dysfluency. Speech disorders may be problems with the way sounds are formed, called articulation

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