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There are many forms of rehabilitation training for hearing-impaired children, of which toys play a pivotal role. The teaching method of teaching and learning is the best for the rehabilitation of hearing-impaired children. But for the choice of toys, parents should pay special attention, some toys may also increase the hearing impairment of children.

Compared with many years ago, our current speech rehabilitation tools for children with hearing loss can be more than just a picture book. Recently, it is more popular to talk about audio-visual electronic toys. Many parents have heard that such audio-visual toys can help children learn to talk. Pay heavily for purchases. Some toys claim to promote language learning, they can speak, sing or make a sound by pressing a button, and some advanced toys even have small screens.

So can such toys really help children with hearing loss? The report in the Journal of Pediatrics of the American Medical Association warns that such educational electronic toys may have the opposite effect.

Parent-child communication experiment

Communication barrier specialists at the University of North Arizona in the United States recruited 26 volunteers through advertising and observed the interaction between them and their children (about 10 to 16).

In order to minimize the sample variables, she distributed 3 toys for each family, namely electronic toys (such as baby pens, vocal plush toys, iPads, etc.), traditional toys (such as building blocks, Lego). Toys, digital puzzles, etc.) and 5 are picture books based on farm animals, colors or letters. Dr. Anna asked parents to control the time the child played the game, stipulating that each type of toy can only play 3 days.

In the process of playing the game, the microphone will be placed on the child’s clothing pocket to record the exchanges between the two parties when playing with the parents.

It was found that when children play electronic toys, not only do they voluntarily vocalize, but the role of parents in the surrounding area is almost only companionship. If 15 minutes is used, the total exchanges only say 40 words. But if you change the electronic toy to a traditional toy, the two sides exchange up to 56 words per minute. If you change to a picture book, the communication per minute is as high as 67.

Why do electronic toys lose to picture books?

When playing traditional toys, parents generally unconsciously tell the child the name of the thing, describe the characteristics, and when reading the book, they will also point to the picture to provide relevant information or imagine with the child. Compared with the situation of playing electronic toys, the reading picture book not only uses more vocabulary, but also can lead children to associate and learn more vocabulary.

From the current research, if the hearing loss children can communicate with their parents more, the language development speed will be faster than others; and relying on electronic toys seems to make parents have the illusion of giving children a sound stimulation, thus reducing the parent-child. Meaningful language communication is obviously more harmful than good.

Nothing can replace parent-child communication

In view of this, hearing experts suggest that instead of buying expensive electronic toys for their children, it is better to buy some traditional toys or picture books for their children. Of course, parents also need to take time to patiently accompany their children. Statistics from speech rehabilitation show that parent-child communication The benefits of bringing hearing-impaired children far outweigh the benefits of electronic “educational toys”.

Toys are only a tool for rehabilitation training for hearing-impaired children, and more importantly, human guidance. If parents don’t know how to guide their children through rehabilitation training, it doesn’t make sense to have expensive toys.

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