Review questions

 

A child with hearing impairment can understand me better if I:

1. a) speak louder;
2. b) speak with pronounced mouth movements;
3. c) speak using very emphatic prosody;
4. d) keep my utterances as short as possible.

 

Solution: c)

 

To help the child acquire speech understanding, it is important that you:
a) make greater-than-normal use of nouns (only introducing other types of word later), because the child is especially interested in what objects, people and animals are called;

1. b) repeat and extend what the child says;
2. c) provide the child with lots of picture cards so that they can associate words with their meaning;
3. d) always speak with the child a lot, even if it sometimes seems that they are not listening.

 

Solution b)

 

A child with hearing impairment can be encouraged to develope spoken language if:

1. a) you ask ‘alternative questions’ at the start of the active language-development phase;
2. b) you test them, using picture-books or word cards, on the words they can already say, by asking, “What’s that?” or “What’s that called?”, and thereby reinforcing these items;
3. c) you do not respond to the child’s gestures and babbling/non-speech sounds, and ask the child to say what they want;
4. d) you model the words to the child and request them to speak: “Say car!”

Solution a)

 

If a child with hearing impairment does not respond immediately when spoken to:

1. a) I leave it for now and try again later;
2. b) I say: “(Child’s name), look at me!” and repeat what I want to say a good deal louder;
3. c) first I wait for a bit and then repeat what I want to say, maybe putting it a different way;
4. d) I repeat the same sentence several times.

 

Solution c)