Post-lingual hearing impairment

Post-lingual hearing impairment is a hearing impairment where hearing loss is adventitious and develops due to disease or trauma after the acquisition of speech and language, usually after the age of six.

Related Topics:
Hearing impairment - Disease - Trauma

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Post-lingual hearing impairments are far more common than prelingual impairments. Typically, hearing loss is gradual, and often detected by family and friends of the people so affected long before the patients themselves will acknowledge the disability.

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