{"id":1494,"date":"2020-02-26T06:14:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T06:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s759348616.websitehome.co.uk\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2020-02-26T06:14:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T06:14:15","slug":"can-my-child-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/s759348616.websitehome.co.uk\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"Can My Child Hear?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hearing loss in children can be caused by a number of things that can occur before, during or after birth (this we will discuss on another day). A possible, acquired, hearing loss is more difficult to identify in older children, as their speech is already developed.\u00a0 Here are some of the tell-tale signs to look out for in children with hearing losses:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> He\/she does not react to loud sounds or your voice\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> He\/she seems to hear fine some of the time and then not respond at other times\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> He\/she has delayed speech or their speech is intelligible\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> He\/she asks you to repeat what you said more often\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> He\/she says that they didn&#8217;t hear you. Many parents assume that their children are not paying attention when in fact there may be an unidentified hearing loss.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> He\/she turns one ear towards the sound source when listening, or they complain that they can only hear out of his &#8220;good ear&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> He\/she wants the TV volume louder than others and\/or sits close to the TV\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> He\/she child&#8217;s grades fall or their teacher notes that they do not seem to hear or respond as well in the classroom as other children. Concerns by the teacher are very important\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> He\/she starts to speak more loudly than before.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If your child looks at you intensely when you speak to them, as if to concentrate, they may be depending more on visual cues for interpreting speech.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> If you as a parent\/caregiver just have a feeling, but you can&#8217;t put your finger on what your concern is. Don&#8217;t let that stop you. Visit an audiologist to ease your mind.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you suspect that your child has a hearing loss, you should contact the Audiologist near you.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing loss in children can be caused by a number of things that can occur before, during or after birth (this we will discuss on another day). A possible, acquired, hearing loss is more difficult to identify in older children, as their speech is already developed.\u00a0 Here are some of the tell-tale signs to look&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/s759348616.websitehome.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/s759348616.websitehome.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/s759348616.websitehome.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s759348616.websitehome.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s759348616.websitehome.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/s759348616.websitehome.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"http:\/\/s759348616.websitehome.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s759348616.websitehome.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/s759348616.websitehome.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s759348616.websitehome.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/s759348616.websitehome.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}