Severe and Profound Hearing Loss and their Relationship to Listening and Learning Needs

"Individual ability and early intensive intervention will determine the degree that sounds detected will be discriminated and processed by the brain into meaningful input" (Anderson, 2007).    In mainstream classrooms, children with a severe or profound hearing loss may become more dependent on adults and socialization with hearing peers may be difficult.  

©1991,RelationshipofDegreeofLongtermHearingLosstoPsychosocialImpactandEducationalNeeds,KarenAnderson &NoelMatkin,revised2007 


Coming up next: Mid-Frequency Hearing Loss and its relationship to listening and learning needs