Exam 8: Language and Children With Auditory Impairments

Children with profound or total hearing loss were previously labeled as deaf.

Why is CAPD currently difficult to accurately diagnose?

There is a direct relationship between cognitive development and language development in children with severe-total hearing impairment.

Children with cochlear implants may have unintelligible speech.

Fitting a cochlear implant before the age of two will lead to near normal language development in children with total hearing impairment.

How does babbling develop in hearing impaired children?

Debate the statement "Learning language in any form is more important than learning to use residual hearing."

Why is hearing loss known as the silent disability?

How do children who acquire hearing loss after language acquisition differ from the prelingually hearing impaired?

The consequences of congenital hearing impairment are usually more severe than the same impairment acquired after the age of two.