Deaf children can learn to hear.
For more than thirty years the author has been using the "unisensory" approach to work with hearing-impaired children, having learned the principles from her teacher, Emil Froeschels. The approach is based on the theory that even minimal amounts of residual hearing in a hearing-impaired infant, if stimulated in a unisensory fashion, could lead to the development of spontaneous speech and oral communication. Children taught by this method learn to process language through their amplified hearing. They acquire language that is adequate for them to be mainstreamed with their hearing peers from the beginning. The article describes seven requisites to an effective unisensory approach.
D000367:Age Factors; D000669:Amplifiers, Electronic; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003638:Deafness / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004519:Education, Special; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008409:Mastication; D008722:Methods; D010287:Parent-Child Relations