hearing impairment

• Hearing impairment


  An impairment in hearing, either temporary or permanent
• Early signs of hearing impairment

  1. 1-3 months: no response to sudden sounds (moro reflex)

  2. 4-6 months: can't locate the sounds

  3. 7-9 months: the child don't look at the person calling/speaking

  4. 10-12 months: when you call the child he will not respond
• Hearing impairment during childhood

  • Delayed response to sounds
  • Can't hear clearly
  • Pay more attention to the listener rather that to what the listener is saying
  • Irrelevant answers
  • Incorrect pronunciation
  • Volume's up when watching tv
  • Easily irritated
• Classification of hearing loss

  • Mild: difficulty identifying of listening to soft sounds (like whisper)
  • Moderate: can't hear the conversational voice (kaharap or kausap mo)
  • Severe: can only hear loud noises such as shouting and the maximum volume of the tv
  • Profound: can't hear any sounds
• Hearing aid


  Can only be used by mild and moderate hearing loss
• Types of hearing loss

  • Unilateral: affects only one ear
  • Bilateral: affects both ears
• Three types of hearing loss

  • Conductive hearing loss (temporary): after using headphones for a long period of time, when you have a cold (sipon), sound may be blocked by earwax or a foreign object
  • Sensorineural hearing loss (could be permanent): problem in the eardrum, caused by viral disease (meningitis, German measles), exposure to loud noise, could be hereditary
  • Mixed hearing loss: have problems outside (conductive) and inside (sensorineural)
• Functional hearing loss


  Any hearing loss that cannot be explained by an organic cause
• Types of functional hearing loss

  • Psychosomatic: you are affected by your emotions (kakafeeling mo na you can't hear, dae kana talaga naka hear)
  • Hysterical Conversion: affected by emotions, unexplained neurological deficits such as paralysis or somatosensory losses
• Eating disorder


  A very common disorder among teens and young adults, specifically girls, third most common illness among teenagers
• 10 yrs. old: 81% are already restricting themselves to eat
• 9 yrs. old: 46% are already engaging in strict diet
• Three types of eating disorder

  • Anorexia Nervosa: literally starving yourself, excessive weight loss, distortion in your self-image
  • Bulimia Nervosa: binge eating, induce self to vomit, repetitive episode of eating and purging, abuse the use of laxatives, diet pills, and diuretics (pampaihi)
  • Binge Eating: compulsive eating (overeating), after overeating, will go on a diet for a long period of time then repeat, when you eat it's because of self-hatred and shame
• Possible physical effects of being Anorexic

  • Lightheaded, irregular heartbeat, different system (respiratory, circulatory, digestive) becomes very slow, suffer from weak immune system can lead to death, hair and nails becomes very brittle, always feel cold, no muscles present, can result in kidney failure, heart failure and permanent damage to your organ — death
• Possible physical effects of being Bulimic

  • Bloody diarrhea, dehydration: no electrolytes — seizure, kidney failure, being too independent to laxatives, sore throat (esophagus), damaged heart muscles, eroded tooth, self induce vomiting, extend period of dieting
• Characteristics of being a Binge Eater

  • Anxiety, depression, loneliness
• Possible roots of having eating disorder

  • Lack of control over life
  • Anxiety
  • Anger
  • Loneliness
  • Depression
  • Having trouble with family, in relationships
  • History of physical and sexual abuse
  • Cultural pressure