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Special Education

Notes Self Assessment
2. State whether the following statements are True or False:
(i) Due to the advancement in technology, the identification of hearing impairment has become
easier.
(ii) Development status may be taken into consideration to identify hearing impaired children.
(iii) The case history is generally taken by teacher.
(iv) The psychiatrist may not collect the data from the child directly or from a close relative of the
child.
(v) Hearing impaired child should be referred to the audiologist and ENT specialist for systematic
investigation and assessment.
(vi) Overdose of strong drugs like streptomycin, guanine and L.S.D are associated with hearing
impairment.

11.3 Summary

• We have discussed about the identifications causes and problems of speech and hearing
impairment.
• Speech Impairment: We can recognize the speech impaired child by some symptoms like faulty
articulation or pronunciation-substitution omission, distortions, unpleasant voice quality,
stuttering, cluttering and by difficulty in formation oral sentence.
• Causes: There are different causes of speech impairment like organic causes (tumuli's of
anomalies, dental, dental irregularities deformation of jaw and lips etc.), functional causes
(children learn to speak in a fallacious manner, if they hear faulty vocabularies) Psycholognic
causes (Children's' reaction ship with others), loss of hearing, social influence, cerebral palsy
are also the causes of speech impairment.
• Problems: Speech impairment children are inferior to normal children in activities like, reading,
coition etc. They have difficulties in pronunciation, and communication so they do not take part
in group activities, social activities etc.
• Hearing Impairment: Identification: The deaf children can be identified by developmental scale.
"Bayle scale of infant development is very helpful for this purpose.
• Neurological tests are used for assessment of neurological functions because hearing impaired
children have additional percepts motor deficiencies.
• In medical examination physician takes general medical history of a child for investigating
functioning and dysfunctioning of various organs case history and systematic observations are
other identification test for hearing impaired child, frequent ear aches, fluid discharge from ear,
leek of equilibrant, asking what-what, speech defects are some symptoms of hearing in paired
child by which we can identified then.
• There are four types of causes of hearing impairment: (i) Hereditary and non hereditary (ii)
congenital and acquired (ii) pre-natal, perinatal and postnatal (iv) physiological and
psychological.
• Certain causes before birth are: (a) Hereditary (b) Rubella (c) Infectious Disease (d) Drugs (e)
Malnutrition.
• There are many problems which hearing impaired child face in daily life like speech and language
problems, occasional educational retardation difficulty with rarely used words, minor differences
in meaning of words, and idioms, defective articulation etc. reading and writing are delayed.

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