2020 Volume 63 Issue 6 Pages 525-530
With the implementation of newborn hearing screening (NHS), children with unilateral hearing loss also began to be identified at birth, and it began to be realized that these children also require early intervention services. This questionnaire survey covered 18 schools, including two schools for the deaf in Niigata prefecture, that have individual classes or/and resource rooms for students with hearing loss. The teachers in these individual classes and resource rooms were asked to respond to the questionnaire about their students with unilateral hearing loss. Sixteen schools that responded to our survey had 21 students with unilateral hearing loss. The parents and guardians of 8 out of the 21 students agreed to provide us with further information. The teachers and guardians of these eight students with unilateral hearing loss thought that they had some problems in these four aspects, “learning,” “behavior,” “listening,” and “articulation.” One of the eight students was diagnosed as having hearing loss from the result of NHS, but this student began to receive educational support from the fifth grade. Our findings imply that the students with unilateral hearing loss may not seek support until they realize that they have problems at school.
