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Hearing Loss
According to the CDC, at least one in 1,000 babies are born with a hearing loss. Historically, a hearing loss could go overlooked in a baby for months and even years, but fortunately, at present approximately 98% of infants are screened for a hearing loss. Identifying a hearing loss in infants is critical, because the first three years of life are crucial for speech and language development and it’s important for all children to have linguistic input from birth. Without exposure to language within this time period, learning to read and write becomes significantly more difficult. To find out detailed information regarding speech and language milestones, visit the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Being categorized as Deaf refers to a wide array of people; the hearing loss varies from person to person and can change over time. For example, an individual could grow up hard of hearing, with a mild hearing loss, and then completely lose their hearing later in life (also known as a progressive loss). Not all hearing loss is the same and some types of hearing loss include the following:
- Severe to profound loss
- According to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), a severe to profound loss is when the degree of loss determined by the audiologist conducting the hearing test finds that the Decibel (dB) loss is 71 or higher, meaning that something has to be at least 71 dB loud, or louder, in order to hear it.
- Moderate to moderately severe loss
- This means the individual can only hear sounds when they are between 41-70 dB.
- Slight to mild loss
- This means the individual can only hear sounds when they are between 16-40 dB. An individual who can hear 15 dB or below is categorized as having typical or normal hearing without a loss.
- Functional loss
- This type of loss refers to an unexplained hearing loss.
- Progressive loss
- As stated earlier, a progressive loss refers to a change in hearing loss over time.
- Auditory neuropathy This is a disorder in which the inner ear detects sound, but is unable to process the sound normally.
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