Hearing aids implementations in early childhood and parents

Abstract

The aim of intervention to hearing loss with the hearing aids is to provide opportunity to access sound. However, assistive hearing technology used in intervention to hearing loss, not only separates the other disabilities from hearing loss, but also necessitates parents get informed about intervention process. Informing process should include the nature of hearing loss, the hearing aids properties, the duration of use, maintenance and care. When adequate knowledge is not provided, hearing aids are not used properly and resolution of technical difficulties is delayed. Informing parents accurately will increase the efficiency of the intervention by ensuring that parents are able to overcome all these difficulties. In this context, the present review describes, roles of parents and effects of these roles to the process of intervention with hearing aids. This review addresses problems that parents come accross in the intervention process conceptually, and includes suggestions towards informing process to decrease the amount of problems which parents go through. In accordance with this purpose, synthesis, interpretation and evaluation of the literature on the issue of hearing aids in the early childhood, which is clinically experinced by the authors, has been integrated in this review article.