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In fact, I did a picture book and other sharing activities on Ear Day last year, and I wrote it again this time because I read a book.
On the cover of the book "Can Bears Ski", a large piece of warm yellow, a small bear in the center of the picture. It's a warm story, but have you noticed that the bears are different? Yes, bears have different ears than other bears. What is it?
This is a hearing aid.
I have always thought that in the current technology so developed, there should be very few hearing impaired children, because we can detect the hearing of the fetus through many technologies. But it's not.
I had met two of these children when I was doing activities, and I was always curious about what the child was carrying on his head, and another volunteer was also curious, so he asked the child's sister, who said it was a hearing aid. At that time, we felt embarrassed to ask the child this question.
Later, after reading this book and learning a lot of stories, I found that we really didn't know enough about this aspect.
In fact, it is not only hearing impairment, for healthy children, all types of disabilities seem to be rarely exposed.
However, the total number of people with disabilities in China is about 85 million. Among them, 12.63 million people have visual disabilities, 20.54 million people have hearing disabilities, 1.3 million people have speech disabilities, 24.72 million people have physical disabilities, 5.68 million people have intellectual disabilities, 6.29 million people have mental disabilities, and 13.86 million people with multiple disabilities.
This information comes from shared information.
Ear Day is just around the corner, the Paralympic Games are about to begin, and all the people who want to share this book with you will learn about the places that we rarely pay attention to.
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The way the bear perceives the world is different from others, when his father told him to wake up in the morning, he was not awakened by the sound, but by the vibration in the room, feeling that the radiator was shaking, the bed was screaming, and the window was shaking. Dad called him for breakfast, and he could only faintly hear the sound, but he could feel the handrail of the stairs and the shaking of the paintings hanging on the wall.
During the meal, a ski race was playing on the TV, and Dad asked the bear, "Can a bear ski?" Little Bear couldn't understand what the question meant, but he didn't pay attention to it. Unexpectedly, in school, teachers and classmates also repeatedly asked him "Can bears ski?" What exactly does this sentence mean? Little Bear was very confused.
Can bears ski?
This is the name of the book and a sentence that runs through the book, and almost everyone the bear meets asks him that. Isn't that weird? Why ask him if the bear can ski?
Then one day, dad took him to an auditory correction specialist, and on the audiogram, the bear's hearing test was like a snow track, which kept going down.
Reading this, it is really painful. It turned out that The bear had experienced so many things that no one else had experienced, and he still imagined skiing on it.
The book's author, Raymond Antrobos, was a well-known deaf-mute poet in Britain, and when he was young, his family did not know that he had hearing impairment, until later his mother bought a very loud telephone, but only he could not hear the ringing. The family began to take him to hearing therapy.
With the help of an audiologist, The Bear finally put on a hearing aid for the first time. The moment he put on the hearing aid, he finally solved the mystery of "can bears ski?", it turned out that the usual other people asked "Can you hear me?" "It's a harmonic because the English can you hear me?" and Can bear ski? Sounds a lot like that. For the first time, The bear also felt that the sounds around him were so lively and loud.
But he did not adapt, sometimes hid the hearing aid, sometimes did not want to hear such a loud sound, fortunately, from beginning to end, Dad was always by his side.
My friend, a kindergarten teacher, said that there was also a child in the next class who wore a hearing aid, and that kid would sometimes deliberately hide the hearing aid and then not want to hear anything.
In fact, hearing-impaired children really need a lot of our love and understanding. Their lives are not at all the same as ours.
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In addition, except for hearing-impaired children, all of us must protect our ears. Many people do not pay enough attention to the ear, in fact, the ear and the eye are our facial features, but also from morning to night every day to work is also sick. Because we have ears, we can hear sounds, hear these beautiful languages.
Start by learning about Ear Day with your child.
Know that March 3 is Ear Day every year. Because 3 is similar in shape to the ear, all 3.3 is Ear Day.
Learn children's songs: there is noise on the road, cover your ears and run fast. The north wind whistles and blows, and the earmuffs are not afraid of freezing. The ear is of great use, and I must protect it.
Second, know which actions will hurt your ears.
For example, speaking loudly to the ear, such as pulling out the ear often, and wearing headphones for a long time. Of course, in addition to these, for smaller children, we must tell them not to stuff things in their ears, such as small seeds, peas, peanuts, beads, and so on.
When you have a snot, do not pinch your nose and stroke your nose hard.
Also wash your face, when bathing to prevent water into your ears, if one ear is in the water, immediately side the ear to let the water flow out or use a cotton ball to suck the water out.
There is also a need to avoid using drugs that are not good for the ear, and usually follow the instructions and the doctor's prescription when taking the drug.
A colleague of mine, as long as the child has a cold ear will have a fluid effusion, and then more and more, hearing is also affected, so he went to surgery. Some children are prone to otitis media as long as they have a cold and a runny nose. My kid downstairs is, the ear hurts, every time because of a cold. Other children can also cause discomfort in their ears because of fire.
Therefore, if the child's ears are uncomfortable, it must be taken to the hospital in time for examination.
After everyone has finished talking to the child, they can discuss how to love the little ear or how to help the hearing impaired children in the future, of course, you can also try to speak with your lips but do not make a sound, and understand what the bear has suffered.
Take your child to read different books from usual, learn about the lives of other parts of your children, and learn to respect and understand.
Every child needs to be understood, cared for, seen and heard.