Navigating Your Child's Hearing Loss Diagnosis

For hearing parents, receiving a hearing loss diagnosis for their child can be a shocking event. For some parents, the diagnosis is the fulfillment of a hunch; confirmation of the suspected, but still scary verdict. Recent research finds that the period directly after hearing loss diagnosis is the m...

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Published in:The Exceptional parent 2011-05, Vol.41 (5), p.18
Main Author: Trapp Petty, Melissa A
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
American Sign Language
Assistive Technology
Care and treatment
Children & youth
Children, Deaf
Clinical Diagnosis
Coping
Cued Speech
Deafness
Diagnosis
Disability Identification
Educational Technology
Expectation
Guides
Hearing Impairments
Hearing loss
Language Acquisition
Language Skills
Methods
Oral Communication Method
Parenting
Parents
Sign language
Social aspects
Total Communication
Training
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Summary:For hearing parents, receiving a hearing loss diagnosis for their child can be a shocking event. For some parents, the diagnosis is the fulfillment of a hunch; confirmation of the suspected, but still scary verdict. Recent research finds that the period directly after hearing loss diagnosis is the most stressful and burdensome for parents, especially when hearing loss is a new condition to the family. There are more questions than answers at this point, and the future may look like a dark, yawning tunnel of unknown interventions and frightening impossibilities. Most parents just hope that their child is going to be okay, and that all of those pamphlets and information sheets will allow them to make the right decisions. This article discusses the parents' first steps after the diagnosis.
ISSN:0046-9157
2373-2881