The importance of rehabilitation for everyone with hearingloss is to improve their life, study, and quality of work. For newborn babies,the purpose of rehabilitation is to allow them to grow up normally withouthearing loss affecting their cognitive and social skills. For children inschool, making friends and helping them with their studies may be the mostimportant goals.While for adults, rehabilitation is to get them back to normal work,to deal with hearing loss with peace of mind and not to deterioraterelationships with family, friends and colleagues.
Excerpt from: Tye-Murray, N.(2014). Foundations ofAuralRehabilitation: Children, Adults and Their Family Members, 4th Edition.
Translation and adaptation: Jiang Lizhizhi,
UW-Madison Communication Science and Communication Barrier BS; Vanderbilt
Speech Language Pathology MS-SLP Candidate
