The hearing impaired or hearing impaired child learns to use the rest of his or her senses to get to know the environment and interact with others.
Games should help the child integrate, communicate with others, and of course, be more autonomous. They will be part of your development and encourage you to explore further.
We present this selection of sensory games, which will allow you to experiment with the rest of your senses, exercising observation and association of concepts, psychomotor skills, facial expressions and language.
Parents and educators can organize activities for children through fun and varied games that stimulate their learning and use of other sensory areas. The games will be developed individually so that the child can strengthen his or her self-esteem and knowledge of the subject matter covered by the activity.
The group games will also help the children feel integrated. This integration is most effective when the group is made up of young children with and without disabilities. The only requirement to be taken into account is the adaptation of the activities for the play of all children under equal conditions. The purpose of the game is the acceptance by the group of children with different abilities.
Ideally, we should know the sign language, so that we can understand and make ourselves understood correctly.
However, there are a number of activities that can be designed for hearing impaired children, which help them to integrate into the group and avoid the risk of exclusion.
We can organize individual activities for hearing impaired children, helping us with some games that allow the development of other sensory areas of the child.
In this way we will be promoting the capacities that it presents, and in addition we will stimulate the learning of the child by means of amusing and varied games.
Activities for hearing impaired children, which are developed on an individual basis, serve to reinforce the child's knowledge of the subject matter of the game itself, and as a basis for increasing self-esteem.
It is very important that the child with a disability feels integrated, so group activities are essential, especially when they are groups of children with disabilities and children without disabilities.
However, we must always organise these types of activities in such a way that they are adapted to everyone, and if the rules of the game need to be modified to make it a fair activity for everyone, it is done without any problem.
The purpose of these activities is not to get a trophy, nor to win a competition, but to gain acceptance by the group of the child's disability, as something normal to adapt to in order to continue.
In Akros we want to recommend some of the games and toys that you can buy in our store, to work with hearing impaired children.
Below we show you some of the most interesting ones.
Children go through every imaginable state of mind in the same day, from the most complete joy to the most absolute frustration in just a few moments.
Sadness, joy, rage, anger, anger,... are part of those moods that they must show and that, although they themselves do not understand, they must allow to emerge.
Sharing their emotions helps them feel more understood, which can also help them avoid tantrums and control their behavior.
Children have to experience all these emotions because they will be part of their emotional base and we have to help them understand and cope with them.
A game that helps them to develop their sense of smell, identifying smells and aromas of different fruits.
In this way it develops the senses that the child has fully active to compensate for the deficiencies in others.
Remember that many games can be played even if you are hearing impaired, since not all of them require all five senses to be performed, but there are many observation games to encourage concentration, which do not need any kind of support or adaptation for deaf children.
Children with hearing problems acquire as much cognitive and intellectual development as other hearing children. Their way of learning will be at a different pace, more leisurely. The rhythm of their teaching is marked by elements such as their level of hearing, the time when the hearing loss occurred, and access to a shared communication system.
The child will mature his or her relationship with reality unevenly without being prevented from reaching the same (and even higher) level of performance as other people. At first, those games of attention and planned strategy will be less accessible to you, depending on your age and level of hearing loss.
Hearing impairment may be present at birth or develop later in childhood or adulthood. The symptoms of hearing loss can vary depending on the cause. Hearing loss may develop gradually over time, especially for factors associated with noise exposure and age.
There are 3 main types of hearing loss:
The level of hearing loss in a hearing person is determined by testing. It consists of determining the minimum volume of sound the patient is capable of hearing, measured in decibels (dB). Some hearing disorders, such as tinnitus, do not necessarily involve hearing loss. There are 4 levels of hearing loss:
The following comparison chart shows some familiar sounds along with the noise they generate. Sounds in the 100 dB range can cause hearing damage. The table below shows the damage that can be caused by continued exposure to certain intensities and the extent of the patient's hearing acuity in hearing tests.
Signs and symptoms associated with hearing loss may include
Children can have their hearing tested in the first few weeks after birth. However, some signs may suggest you consider further evaluation, for example, if you notice the following signs in your child:
This condition is often caused by an obstruction that blocks the ear canal. Conductive hearing loss involves a reduction in the level of sound perceived by the child, or the inability to hear weak sounds. It occurs when sounds are unable to reach the inner ear. The most likely causes of conductive hearing loss are:
It occurs when hair cells within the cochlea or related nerve pathways (inner ear) are damaged. The conditions may be, among others:
