In no other area of exceptionality is early education more crucial than with the hearing impaired. For hearing infant, the world of sound helps him to learn to associate objects, persons, and events, to draw inferences, and to make predictions about what will happen. It also provides an excellent means for him to relate to other people.
Definition:
Hearing impairment is a hearing loss that: With or without amplification that adversely affects educational performance a development progress. May be permanent or fluctuating. May be mild to profound. May be unilateral or bilateral May also refer to hard of hearing or deafness.
Hard of hearing refers to loss of sensitivity of hearing but can hear sound and responds to speech with or without the use of hearing aids.
Deafness refers to the inability to hear with or without the use of hearing aids.
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