Is Deafness a Disability?

Hearing disabilities, due to various reasons leading to binaural hearing loss or hearing impairment, can not hear or not hear the sound of the surrounding environment, which makes it difficult to carry out normal language communication activities with ordinary people. Hearing disabilities are divided into four levels. They are the first level of hearing impairment: the structure and function of the hearing system are extremely severely damaged, and the average hearing loss of the better ear is 91dBHL. Without the assistance of hearing aid equipment, you cannot rely on hearing for verbal communication. Restricted, there are extremely serious obstacles in participating in social life. Hearing Disability Level 2: The structure and function of the auditory system are severely impaired. The average hearing loss of better ears is between 81-90dBHL. Without the assistance of hearing aids, severely limited activities in understanding and communication, and participation in social life There are serious obstacles. Hearing Disability Level 3: The structure and function of the auditory system are moderately and severely impaired. The average hearing loss of the better ear is between 61-80dBHL. Without the assistance of hearing aids, it is moderately limited in activities such as understanding and communication. There are moderate obstacles in social life. Hearing disability level 4: Moderate impairment of the structure and function of the hearing system, average hearing loss in the better ear is between 41-60dBHL, with the help of hearing aids, there is a slight limitation in activities such as understanding and communication, and participation in There are mild obstacles in social life.

Hearing disability

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Hearing disabilities, due to various reasons leading to binaural hearing loss or hearing impairment, can not hear or not hear the sound of the surrounding environment, making it difficult to conduct normal language communication activities with ordinary people. Hearing disabilities are divided into four levels. They are the first level of hearing impairment: the structure and function of the hearing system are extremely severely damaged, and the average hearing loss of the better ear is 91dBHL. Without the assistance of hearing aid equipment, you cannot rely on hearing for verbal communication, and extreme activities in understanding and communication Restricted, there are extremely serious obstacles in participating in social life. Hearing Disability Level 2: The structure and function of the auditory system are severely impaired. The average hearing loss of better ears is between 81-90dBHL. Without the assistance of hearing aids, severely limited activities in understanding and communication, and participation in social life There are serious obstacles. Hearing Disability Level 3: The structure and function of the auditory system are moderately and severely impaired. The average hearing loss of the better ear is between 61-80dBHL. Without the assistance of hearing aids, it is moderately limited in activities such as understanding and communication. There are moderate obstacles in social life. Hearing disability level 4: Moderate impairment of the structure and function of the hearing system, average hearing loss in the better ear is between 41-60dBHL, with the help of hearing aids, there is a slight limitation in activities such as understanding and communication, and participation in There are mild obstacles in social life.

Chinese name

Hearing disability

Foreign name

hearing disability

cause

Congenital factors Environmental factors

status quo

20.57 million people in China

Hearing disability:

Hearing loss or hearing impairment in both ears due to various reasons, the sound of the surrounding environment cannot be heard or not heard, and it is difficult to conduct normal language communication activities with ordinary people. This term is used in the first sample survey of persons with disabilities conducted in mainland China in 1987. The definition proposed in the second sample survey of persons with disabilities in 2006 is: different degrees of permanentness in both ears due to various reasons

There are:

I. Congenital factors: parents' close relatives marry, mother's illness during pregnancy (such as rubella, severe flu, etc.), mother's drug poisoning or abuse during pregnancy, use of forceps during labor to cause trauma, severe asphyxia due to dystocia, neonatal jaundice.

Environmental factors: nutrient deficiencies (such as endemic cretinism due to iodine deficiency, noise deafness, high fever, ototoxic deafness (ototoxic drugs: streptomycin, kanamycin, gentamicin), otitis media, head Internal trauma, and other diseases and unknown causes.

Some scholars divide it into internal causes caused by heredity and external causes caused by accidents or diseases before birth, at birth, and after birth that are not related to genetic factors. It is common in hearing education and hearing impairment in special education.

In China, 20.57 million people with hearing and speech impairments make up one-third of the country's total 60 million people with disabilities. At present, there are 1.17 million deaf children in China, of which more than 800,000 are deaf children under the age of seven. According to census statistics, among the newborns born every year, severe hearing impairment accounts for about 1 to 3 . Due to drug, genetic, infection, disease, environment, noise pollution, accidents and other reasons, more than 30,000 deaf children are added each year. It is estimated that the proportion of people with hearing impairment at different levels in the population is 14% at the age of 45 to 64, 30% at 65 to 75, and more than 50% at age 75 and above. In 2002, the Ministry of Health and the China Disabled Persons' Federation jointly issued the "China Action Plan to Improve the Quality of the Population and Reduce Birth Defects and Disabilities", which plans to reduce genetic defects and chromosomal diagnosis and other high-tech methods to reduce birth defects including hereditary deafness and prevent drug-related diseases. Newborn disability such as deafness. The "Eleventh Five-Year Plan for the Development of China's Disabled Persons" also clearly states that one of the task indicators and major measures for the development of the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" is "to carry out disability prevention and reduce the occurrence of disability", and to "generalize the knowledge of rehabilitation and improve The whole society's awareness of disability prevention ... Focusing on the major disabling factors such as heredity, disease, poisoning, accidental injury, harmful environment, etc., carry out focused publicity and education and take intervention measures ... In order to increase the attention of the public and medical workers on deafness and hearing impairment, 10 departments, including the Ministry of Health, the China Disabled Persons' Federation, and the Ministry of Education, jointly announced that March 3 every year is National Ear Day.