... sound is impeded or sensorineural loss where sounds are distorted rather than dampened. The development of a child's spoken language is dependant upon what age it experiences a hearing loss. Those who are born deaf are unable to experience oral language and this has an affect on their language development. Those children who have already started to master or have mastered the oral language system when their deafness occurs will be able to possess the ability to continue the learning of their language. Children who are unable to hear speech are highly dependant on visual information because they tend to receive less linguistic information by default (Wood, Wood, Griffiths, Howarth, 1986) Research conducted on children with hearing impairments suggests that the communication difficulties that are experienced with others will profoundly affect the quality of their social experiences for them. Deaf children are less emotionally mature, more impulsive and more likely to have ...

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