THE HARD OF НЕАRING

Until the early 1900’s everybody with a hearing loss was classified as “deaf”.

The term “hard of hearing” has been adopted from the German expression “Schwerhorigkeit”.

The hard of hearing (h.o.h.) is sometimes called “the partially deaf”, “deafened”, or “partially hearing”.

In school practice the fundamental difference between “the deaf” and the “hard of hearing” is established by the amount of speech and language they possessed, established be­fore the onset of the hearing handicap.

The hard of hearing child has a distinct advantage over the deaf child in having some experience with speech and language.

Regardless of the type and degree of his impairment, the h.o.h. (hard of hearing) person must learn to listen attenti­vely if he wishes to learn to hear properly again. The use of a hearing aid is fundamental to any programme of re-educating residual hearing.

The hard of hearing are provided with a rehabilitation programme including auditory training, lipreading.

The hard of hearing children are expected to use the combined sense of hearing and sight in the perception of speech as they are instructed in lipreading and auditory training.

In almost all classes for h.o.h. children there are pupils of varying degrees of intelligence and language back­grounds. The academic group is composed of those who wish to continue through high school. The vocational group is for those who wish to go to work soon after they have reached the limit of the compulsory school law.

Т E R M S

hearing loss потеря слуха

hearing aid слуховой аппарат

auditory training тренировка слуха

lipreading считывание с губ

background зд. подготовка

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