[HealthyIndia] Hearing loss and alterative treatment!

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Hi Neeti, Please look back and see if this can be related to vaccinations. Mostly they are. Accupressure can surely help. I witnessed a 15 month old girl who could not talk or walk, but in 4 months caught up and is now very fine. Take action fast. PrabhaNeeti <neetibharatan wrote: Hi all,We have a 14 month old sone who was born normal and on time withoutany complications. At about 4 month he seemed to behave like a normalchild. However he

did not keep up developmentally with his age andsuddenly we realized at 9 months of age that he is extrememly behinddevelopmentally. When I look back at things, I am starting to realizethat he was hypotonic at 6 months of age and then onwards. he did notwant to sit by himself. He also has hearing loss and visual problems.Could anyone throw light on this especially hearing loss can hearingcome back with treatment?Neeti

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Dear Sir,

 

There are many possible causes of hearing impairment and deafness: genetic, congential, injury, (vaccinations) and illness. Here in the United States, as as far as I know with regard to the research, less than 1% of all hearing loss and deafness is due to genetic factors. I am a trained and experience teacher of the hearing impaired and deaf. My experience is both with mild hearing impairment and those with severe deafness and other complicating disabilities--like blindness (visual impairment), autism, ADHD and mental retardation. I have taught both mild and severe children speech as well as sign language to communicate. My specialization was with adolescents 13 years and above. But I have worked with children as young as in preschool. Most of my students however lost their hearing due to illness that was produced by high fevers like mennigitis. Most of my students could remember sounds and what it was like to hear. Most became hearing impaired or deaf before the age of 2 years old.

 

As trained teacher of Deaf and hearing impaired, it is most important continue to speak to this child AS IF he were not having hearing problems. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk and then talk some more. Allow your love and patience to guide your relations with child. Miracles are possible. I have seen them happen. These conditions of visual and hearing impairment may not go away, but a normal or very near normal life can be lived. Give the child as many opportunities for experiences to learn about the world as possible: let the child help to cook in the kitchen, clean the house, help father and mother and sister and brother do activities with the hands, participate in all activities. It tends to be the natural thing for parents to stop speaking to a deaf or hearing impaired child as they decide, "he can't hear anyway." But this author has seen and known otherwise. There are hearing aids and other technological devices that will amplify sound/hearing and can help tremendously. Glasses increase visual acuity also.

 

Speech sounds are at a relative high frequency. But the lower frequency of sounds can be heard by us all as they are produced by the vibration of the skull and at the mastoid bones just behind the ear. We do not hear the lower sounds through the ear canal and ear drum only. There is lots of room for improvement and lots of hope. In this respect music therapy is very helpful...music with low tones and rythmic drums. Ayurvedic ragas may be very helpful in this regard.

 

Art therapy is also helpful in expressing feelings as expression is difficult for those with delayed communications skills and can lead to high levels of frustration and behavior difficulties in the child.

 

Hatha Yoga and Tai Chi (movement meditation) will also be very good for coordination and connnection to self and relation of self to others. Pranayama and meditation as the child grows older can help with learning to control the emotions, especially frustration.

 

I am working on developing a meditation program for children with disabilities that will include all of these things.

 

Soft touch on the shoulder is also advised to gain attention from others by the child and toward the child when others need the child's attention. The child needs also to see gentle loving faces also when there is difficulty, as the eyes will be the dominant mode for communication entry. Children with normal hearing learn much about the world around them from hearing things indirectly (not watching an event at the same time as listening). This is not so for the hearing impaired or deaf child. Everything seems disconnected in the child's experience that is learned through hearing indirectly. The child only learns that which he specifically can hear and only partially learns from what is seen only (which can be problematic). Direct teaching of some things is necessary at the time an experience is occurring sometimes. Direct teaching includes guided talk during an experience about what is occuring in an experience or afterwards. Parents and family are the greatest and first teachers. Experience or experiential learning is very important to hearing impaired children and getting them into school with a trained teacher as soon as possible is also very important. Many children born deaf and with hearing impairment, and other disabilities, can go on to live normal lives and even go to college. In America we have a famous actress, Marlee Matlin who is Deaf and we recently had Miss America, who was also Deaf. There is lots of hope.

 

What you say about "babbling" changes in the infant is what we do see in the hearing impaired child at that age. It begins to sound differently in subtle ways as young as 6 months. Continue to seek treatments like previous author says, but also continue to talk, talk, talk to the child and use gestures of the hands to guide what you are saying....language difficulties with hearing impaired are delays only that the special teacher tries to make up for once the child comes into the classroom. Sign language can help, but is not always necessary--even in the case of complete deafness. First, as must sound as can be given to the child must be there (like hearing aid) and then lots and lots of input (talk--speech or by sign language, which ever the child him or herself response to best).

 

(someone on this list can translate this into Hindi for me for Neeti to understand what I am saying better, I would be greatly appreciative).

 

Om Shanti,

 

Ash

 

On Behalf Of Prabha KrishnanFriday, September 08, 2006 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [HealthyIndia] Hearing loss and alterative treatment!

 

Hi Neeti,

 

Please look back and see if this can be related to vaccinations. Mostly they are.

Accupressure can surely help. I witnessed a 15 month old girl who could not talk or walk, but in 4 months caught up and is now very fine. Take action fast.

PrabhaNeeti <neetibharatan wrote:

 

 

Hi all,We have a 14 month old sone who was born normal and on time withoutany complications. At about 4 month he seemed to behave like a normalchild. However he did not keep up developmentally with his age andsuddenly we realized at 9 months of age that he is extrememly behinddevelopmentally. When I look back at things, I am starting to realizethat he was hypotonic at 6 months of age and then onwards. he did notwant to sit by himself. He also has hearing loss and visual problems.Could anyone throw light on this especially hearing loss can hearingcome back with treatment?Neeti

 

 

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