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Dealing With A Hearing Disability Can Overcome Parents With Emotion
A Parent’s Nightmare Come To Life.
By Ronald Kennedy
April 2, 2023
Parents are often told, after recently completing a child testing diagnostic process, that “you have the same child that you went into the testing booth with — it’s just that you’re looking at him/her differently now.
By this I mean that the ‘problem’ at this time is the parents’ problem, not the child.
For the parents’, it’s a grief reaction; the impact of hearing loss is devastating! They’ve lost the child they thought they were going to have and the life they expected to live.
This will invoke for the parents’ many feelings of loss. How emotional parents deal with hearing disabilities is measured on different levels and something to consider.
For the child regardless of age, there will be feelings associated with the hearing loss; but these will not be one of loss as almost all children with hearing loss have never heard normally or have no memory of hearing.
