The ability to hear well affects more than our ability to communicate including vocabulary and sentence structure, academic achievement, social interaction and career choice. According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, there are four major ways in which hearing loss affects children: it causes delays in speech and language skills the language deficit results in lower academic achievement communication difficulties lead to social isolation and poor self-concept it may have an impact on vocational choices Hearing impaired children have trouble learning abstract words like "before" and "after" and understanding words with multiple meanings. They often have trouble hearing certain sounds, such as "s", "sh", "f", "t", "k" and "ed" which affects the sentences they construct and the words they include in their vocabulary. While the gap between children wi...
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