Some Results of Hearing Aid Treatment at a Boarding School for Profoundly Deaf Children

Abstract

The children being educated at the school for the deaf at Fredericia all belong to the following cathegory:

Children who on account of a congenital or in early life acquired massive hearing disease have not been able to acquire mastery of language in the natural way through the ear, or children whose hearing defect has developed so early in childhood that the command of language acquired in the natural way has been lost again. These children are referred to special schools, where the training earlier was based mainly or exclusively on visual contact between pupil and teacher. During the last few years even a very small residual hearing has become of importance through being amplified by means of modern, individually fitted hearing aids.