Sensori-Neural Hearing Loss

 

A sensori-neural hearing loss is far less common but is often likely to be permanent. With this type of hearing loss, sounds are often distorted and some sounds are not heard.

 

For example, a high frequency hearing loss affects the child's ability to hear most of the consonants, so speech is heard as a string of vowel sounds, with word endings indicating plurals and tenses, not being picked up.

 

Far less common, is low frequency hearing loss, which limits the child's ability to hear vowel sounds. Although hearing aids are highly beneficial in helping a child to hear the missing consonants or vowels depending on their type of hearing loss, the distortion is still there.

 

Children who have a sensori-neural hearing loss will need more support to acquire speech and their language development and ability to acquire new vocabulary is often delayed. Hearing Support Specialists are able to put in place individualized plans and share strategies you can use to support your child. 

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