What causes Hearing Loss?

How does it happen?

When people ask about what is the causes of hearing loss, common answers are that it was of old age and an birth defects. Now those answers was not wrong, for today let explore this 2 common medical terms; sensorineural and conductive hearing loss.

Sensorineural is the most common type of hearing loss. This occurs when there is damage to either tiny hair-like cells of inner ear or auditory nerve itself which are permanent hearing loss.

Conductive is another type of hearing loss which occurs there is obstruction or damage to outer or middle ear. This kind of hearing loss may be temporary or permanent, depending on the cause.

Not everyone have the same level of hearing loss

As you can see, there are different type of hearing loss and causes to it. One most critical part of hearing loss that have caused many misconception is the severity level of the hearing loss. 

People with known hearing impairment do not have the same degree of hearing loss and many are capable of communication with some form of aids. This is important to understand because child development can be impacted with how society see them. 

Not everyone know sign language

A big part of the misconception is also where society think every hearing impaired people will know sign languages. Again as there are different variety of hearing loss, there are many people who are communicating fine with speech rather than sign languages

And this are where questions like this always asked when meeting people with hearing loss. Awareness about hearing loss are important to educate the society.

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