Symptoms of Infant Hearing Loss
Author: mzPOTTER
What are the symptoms?
Children with hearing loss will be less responsive, or no sound, and may have a delay in normal development of language, which would be approximately:
- Newborn: should startle (move all four limbs) and open your eyes wide in response to a sudden noise and strong, like a door.
- Baby 4-5 months: it must recognize the voice of parents smiling or leaving to mourn, and move the head and eyes in the direction of the speaker.
- Baby 7-8 months: you must turn your head and the body quickly to the parent’s voice and sounds like the phone ringing, feel good and respond when spoken to him making more noise.
- Babies 10-12 months: responds as before, but also hears familiar sounds and babble high. You can also repeat one or two syllables spoken to a normal level, like “mama.”
- Children between 1 and 2 years to develop responses to spoken instructions. It should say simple words clearly to parents, as father, mother, and so on. Reacts to his name.
- Child of 2 or more years should begin to join two words like “daddy home.”
If any of these responses does not appear, you should check your child’s hearing. Usually a deaf child will be frightened in the dark and begin to mourn.