Understand Sensory Loss (Ss Mu 3.1)

There are a number of factors that can impact individuals with sensory loss. People with sensory loss can miss out on important information that people without sensory loss take in day to day without even realising. Communication is an area in which people with sensory loss have many issues. they may also find it difficult to feed themselves, dressing, mobility, hobbies and interests can have a major negative impact on their lives. They could also feel scared and alone. There can also be positive factors that could impact on individuals lives, increased help, aids for support and a good support team could give them a

2. Effective communication may have a positive impact on the lives of individuals with sensory loss by affecting their physical and mental well-being and make them cope with their sensory loss and maintaining social contact contributed to an improved quality of life.

1.3 If a person’s hearing or sight is impaired, body language and tone of voice will become more important. They may also need to learn new skills such as sign language or lip reading in order to be able to communicate. Making sure the person's glasses is the correct prescription, that their hearing aids are working properly, that they are looking at your face when you speak so that they can lip read, keeping your communication simple and clear, using visual prompts, light touches to their arms to gain attention etc.

A range of factors can impact on individuals with sensory loss. We gather so much information from our sight and hearing. Talking, listening & reading are all things we do in everyday life, we rely on our senses to understand and process what is going on around us and to carry out our everyday living skills, so to lose any of these will have a massive impact.

Sensory impairment could be a barrier to effective communication they can prevent service users and health care professionals from communicating correctly, this is because they interfere with a service user’s ability to send, receive and understand a message. According to Collins Education sensory impairment is the key issue why service users with sensory impairments are more exposed to ineffective care and their needs are not always met. This would make the service users have a low self-esteem because they will be left confused and unaware about their health.

Deaf/Hard of Hearing people can overcome many difficulties, and they are still able to communicate with others. They can communicate by using American Sign Language, fingerspelling, lip reading, gesture, or oral language. Hash (2003) mentions, “For

Individuals with a sensory loss need effective positive communication in their life in order to maintain their mental wellbeing and improve their health and emotional state. It's important for the individual to feel that they can still participate and contribute in the decision making process, having choices and control in how they live their lives whilst still allowing individuals to retain their personal dignity by having informed choices in the way they are cared for and supported. This helps individuals to cope with their sensory loss and enables them to feel included which helps to build their self esteem and confidence and contributes to a better quality of life. For individuals with sensory loss ,communication is vital that in order

The actions that should be taken if there are concerns about onset of sensory loss or change in sensory status as follows.

From a young age children are taught to perceive the world through their five senses: smell, taste, touch, sight, and hearing. However, not every person has the privilege to use all of their senses. The people who have the benefit of all five senses often take for granted their ability and sometimes even marginalize people who do not have the same abilities. This research paper will focus on the issues that those who cannot hear face every day. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders “2 to 3 out of every 1,000 children in the United States are born with a detectable level of hearing loss in one or both ears...and one in eight people in the United States (30 million) ... has hearing loss in both ears” (NIDCD 1). The Deaf community will continually experience marginalization because of mass information, obliviousness, and miscommunication. While this may not sound extensive compared to the whole of the population, it is significant enough to warrant attention.

The significant impact of hearing loss on communication and interaction with others sometimes goes undiagnosed by healthcare practitioners.

People who are hearing aid user have said that there was “ a change in their family’s demeanor, which may be due to them finally being able to communicate and enjoy family life “(newsmax), Families have been more connected than before due to how effective hearing aids have been to the users and how effectively people hear what other say. Other studies say that getting hearing aids has allowed people to be more active and social due to having a higher level of confidence than before. Additionally, another study says that having hearing loss increases self consciousness. Due to how people react to people to those with hearing loss, people start to not be affected by how society has reacted to them. Those people believe that what society has to say about them is not important to them anymore. The self esteem of one grows due to how those people know that the hearing aids are helping them and society simply does not understand

The ability of an individual to carry out auditory tasks in the real world is influenced not only by his or her hearing abilities, but also by a multitude of situational factors, such as background noise, competing signals, room acoustics, and familiarity with the situation. Such factors are important regardless of whether one has a hearing loss, but the effects are magnified when hearing is impaired. For example, when an individual with normal hearing engages in conversation in a quiet, well-lit setting, visual information from the speaker’s face, along with situational cues and linguistic context, can make communication quite effortless. In contrast, in a noisy environment, with poor lighting and limited visual cues, it may be much more difficult

An important way people learn how to relate to the world around us is the knowledge and use of the traditional five senses, along with the body parts associated with each one. Our nose is for smelling; our eyes are for seeing; our mouth is for tasting; our ears are for hearing; and our hands are for touching. Those are specific details about our physical being. Yet, despite those truths, not everyone experiences the world in the same manner. That is the viewpoint this research will explore. The human ear is a developed part of our bodies; and audioception is the term for hearing sounds. However, when one experiences hearing loss, it therefore, becomes a hearing impairment, or a low incidence disability. In this paper, I will discuss deaf education,

Accessibility of services. Services do no good if they have waiting lists that run into years, or aren’t physically accessible to those who need them.

Many individuals take for granted their ability to communicate with family members, friends, and coworkers daily. It is not uncommon for individuals to put themselves in situations that hinder their ability to hear, which is an important part of communication. People tend to disregard the many avoidable hazardous things that lead to hearing loss, such as consonantly listening to loud noises, forcibly cleaning ears with Q-tips, or ignoring the excess accumulation of cerumen in their ear. In subjecting myself to a mild conductive hearing loss I could somewhat comprehend the importance of what it means to hear.