Talk:Hearing impairment
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[edit] Holy POV, Batman!
In children, hearing loss can lead to social isolation for several reasons. First, the child experiences delayed social development that is in large part tied to delayed language acquisition. It is also directly tied to their inability to pick up auditory social cues. This can result in a deaf person becoming generally irritable. A child who uses sign language, or identifies with the deaf sub-culture does not generally experience this isolation, particularly if he/she attends a school for the deaf, but may conversely experience isolation from his parents if they do not know sign language. A child who is exclusively or predominantly oral (using speech for communication) can experience social isolation from his or her hearing peers, particularly if no one takes the time to explicitly teach her social skills that other children acquire independently by virtue of having normal hearing. Finally, a child who has a severe impairment and uses some sign language may be rejected by his or her deaf peers, because of an understandable hesitation in abandoning the use of existent verbal and speech-reading skills. Some in the deaf community can view this as a rejection of their own culture and its mores, and therefore will reject the individual preemptively.
Regarding the first bolded section, I'm a bit confused... if it's pre-lingual hearing loss, why would the child have "delayed language acquisition"? Signed language users go through the same stages of Language acquisition that oral language users go through. If it's truly post-lingual hearing loss, I could see how there would be a delay in acquisition of a signed language. But pre-lingual hearing loss? I don't see a difference.
As for the second paragraph, I see some NPOV issues with the word "understandable". And again, since this is a pre-lingual person we're talking about, there are no "existent verbal and speech-reading skills." This paragraph seems to either have been written by someone with a strong Oralist bent, or someone who got confused about the "pre-lingual" part.134.71.140.147 (talk) 23:47, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Deafness article
Please join in the discussion at this location. Photouploaded (talk) 16:08, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Request for assistance merging content
The first half of the Deafness article was essentially a poor version of the hearing impairment article. There was a great deal of duplication between the two. In an attempt to fix this problem, I have moved this first half of the Deafness article to the hearing impairment namespace, under Talk:Hearing impairment/Deafness. Please compare this content with that of hearing impairment. I would appreciate feedback concerning how best to merge in this content. Photouploaded (talk) 16:40, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
- In the case of orphaned duplicated content like that, just replace it by a summary and a main-article link. Dicklyon (talk) 18:43, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
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- There isn't any article to link to. The Deafness article is gone. Photouploaded (talk) 14:31, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
What happened to the old article? I spent a lot of time working on it, and my entries seem to not have been transferred to hearing impairment article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.172.28.73 (talk) 15:53, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
What's the name of the condition where your ears spontaneously feel as though they have been "plugged" and you cannot do anything but wait until it wears off by itself? (Dominant when entering high altitudes by airplanes or in tunnels by car) 13:23, 28 March 2008 (UTC)White Mage Cid Hi how are you people!!!!11 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.176.136.240 (talk) 21:09, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
