Hearing
Imagine not hearing the Adhan or a Qari and beautiful Quranic recitation.
Take a minute and close your eyes and count up all the ways that you depend upon and learn with Allah's gift of hearing. Now think further back, to your childhood. How much of your education depended on what you heard? Hearing is important at all ages but in children it is extremely important as it is a crucial part of the ability to learn, socialize and communicate.
Every year in most public schools in the US children in certain grades take a hearing test. They put on head phones and either push a button or raise their hand to indicate that they have heard a particular tone. This is a called a behavioral test, and it is the most common.
Sometimes, as parents, we get used to something that seems an everyday occurrence and we do not notice a gradual loss of hearing, or we attribute it to being distracted or daydreaming. Sometimes we do not notice when a child cannot hear as well as he or she should.
As homeschoolers, or parents/educators in Islamic schools, we need to act as our children's advocates. We need to remember that sometimes doctors take it for granted that all children are in public schools and will received regularly scheduled hearing screenings.
Check with your doctor about obtaining the same type of hearing test for your children that publicly schooled children receive.
The Ear and Hearing Series
1 / Series
2 (activities and worksheets)
More
activities
The Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
Gallaudet University
Hear It
Questions about children's hearing
Children and Hearing Loss
Audiology
Awareness Campaign
Online "Hearing Tests"
Hearing test (using tones) over the internet don't really
work,
here is one for entertainment
and education purposes
How the
ear works (animated -- good teaching device)
How the ear works (no-animation)
Kid's Health 4 Parents: Hearing
NATIONAL
INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Hearing Test Identifies Auditory Problems
in Children Who Have Language Impairment
5
minute hearing test for adults
Children can use this to ask their parents, aunts, uncles,
grandparents to better understand the process of hearing and hearing loss.
(This exercise/questionnaire may also impress upon them the need to protect
their hearing form loud noises.)
Noise Pollution -- National Association for Child Development