Effectiveness of early intervention on academic achievement of Hearing-Impaired children.

Abstract

It is well recognized that hearing is critical to speech and language development,communication, and learning. In fact Communication development and behavioural skills areinfluenced by a child’s ability to hear. Hearing is a complex process of picking up sound and attachingmeaning to it. The ability to hear is critical to understanding the world around us. Children with ahearing loss often report feeling alone, without friends, and unhappy in school, particularly when theirsocialization with other children with a hearing loss is limited. Despite advance in technology and agreater emphasis on improving the academic performance of students with hearing impairments, thesekids continue to have a more difficult time with reading, math, science and social studies.