Deaf children should wear hearing aids before the age of 6 Case 1: Mengmeng, 7 years old, has had poor hearing in both ears since he was a child, and his speech is not very clear. When he reached school age, his parents gave him a hearing aid, but he still couldn’t hear. Expert interpretation: 1 to 6 years old is the developmental period of children’s hearing, but also the development of language, clinical observation found that, if the sound stimulation is not felt during this period, the child’s cerebral cortex responsible for hearing will be occupied by other functions, and will lose its hearing function forever. Meng Meng is such an example. If a child with particularly severe hearing loss does not have the financial means to get a cochlear implant, it is better to wear a hearing aid. Although the child may not be able to hear sound yet, which does not help much in restoring speech function, it will stimulate the development of the cerebral cortex, so that when he or she grows up, he or she will at least be able to feel the stimulation of the warning sound, which will improve his or her quality of life. Pay attention to language training after wearing hearing aids Case 2: Lele’s father equipped him with a hearing aid half a year ago, and went to the clinic half a year later to say that the hearing aid had no effect at all. He was puzzled and asked, “The child wears the hearing aid every day, how can it be ineffective?” Upon closer questioning, he realized that Lele’s parents thought that Lele could hear and speak after wearing the hearing aids, but did not conduct any language training at all. Expert interpretation: Parents think that small children will open their mouths and speak after wearing hearing aids, in fact, infants and young children wearing appropriate hearing aids is only the first step in learning language, the most arduous and critical is the auditory language training after the fitting. After a deaf child wears a hearing aid, do not expect to be able to hear and understand all the words immediately, which requires a process of adaptation. First of all, we should cultivate the child’s good habit of wearing hearing aids, which should be used in a quiet environment first, practicing the child to listen to familiar sounds, such as the sound of running water, the sound of a door slamming, etc., and then gradually wearing them in an environment with diverse sounds. Then train the child’s ability to recognize various sounds, and finally develop language skills, starting with words, then phrases, and then from simple sentences to complex sentences, and gradually training, so that the child grows up in a normal environment, which will help the child understand and learn the language. Hearing aids should be equipped not to buy Case 3: Ms. Wu, 49 years old, a year ago, hearing loss, hearing examination for moderate to severe neurological deafness, recommended by a friend to the mall counter to buy a hearing aid, nearly a year down the road, consciously worse hearing. Expert interpretation: Due to the fact that the current hearing aid market is mostly run by merchants and lacks the standardized guidance of doctors, there are more problems encountered in the clinic. Selection of hearing aids should first be under the guidance of a doctor to standardize the results of the hearing examination for the selection of the standard, if you wear an inappropriate hearing aids, not only can not cure deafness, but will cause deafness, and aggravate the damage to the hearing. Whether it is the elderly or children, all models of hearing aids are generally used for five years, during which time they should often be debugged under the guidance of a doctor, so that the hearing aid is in the most appropriate state to help the residual auditory nerve function. The right hearing aid may also enable the cerebral cortex to compensate for the function of the cerebral cortex and promote the gradual improvement of hearing. Hearing aids are not the more expensive the more appropriate Case 4: Mr. Zhang should have been eighty birthday, children to do filial piety, a plan, to the mall to buy a more than 10,000 yuan of hearing aids when the birthday gift to the elderly. Expert interpretation: With the improvement of people’s economic conditions, in recent years, the price of expensive hearing aids in turn best-selling, tens of thousands of dollars a hearing aid sells like hot cakes. Most people believe that the more expensive items must be the better, this mentality is in the hands of the business, often recommended to patients multi-functional, the latest models of hearing aids. Generally speaking, the price of hearing aids ranges from a few hundred dollars to tens of thousands of dollars, in order to apply for the best. Elderly people due to the decline in the ability of hands, some very small hearing aid adjustment buttons are not good to use, resulting in the use of difficult, easy to adjust the hearing aid is more suitable for the elderly. Preschool children to hear the sound can be, unnecessary too many functions; to middle school to start learning English, the voice requirements are higher, you can wear more features.