Psychological evaluation and counselling in Kottayam | Kerala support for children with hearing loss is very crucial along with the mainstream treatment. It also helps parents feel more comfortable talking to children about hearing loss, helping them describe their feelings about being a child with hearing loss in a mainstream settings and helping children learn to advocate for themselves about issues related to hearing loss.
Why is Counselling important?
Most children with hearing loss are educated in mainstream facilities. The advantages of a mainstream facility are that children with hearing loss will have typical language models. The typical hearing children have normal academic, social and developmental skills and the same will be expected of the children with hearing loss from other children and the school faculty. The children with hearing loss will also have a better opportunity to develop skills that will serve them as adults. The disadvantage of children in a mainstream education system is that they do not have significant contact with other children with hearing impairments and as result some of them may feel isolated and if the language skills are weak they will have more limited social opportunities and not feel good about themselves. That is where the role of counselling becomes significant.
Children who are in the special education setting may need assistance in dealing with people outside the environment. They depend on the school program and may not be able to communicate well with outside people.
What are the Types of Counselling?
There are mainly two kinds of counselling: informational counselling where we make people aware with facts and support counselling where we help them deal with emotions and feelings.
Client-Centred Counselling: focuses on the client and not on the test results. Here the diagnostic process begins with first contact with the family. Along with children, parents too need the opportunity to share their feelings, distress and concerns.
When children gets older, we need to start including children in the diagnostic process because it helps them understands the issues related to their hearing loss and figure out what they might do to make things better.
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