If your child has hearing loss, confidence, resilience, and self-advocacy are especially important to their development. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at these attributes and show you how to build them in your child.
What Are Confidence, Resilience, and Self-Advocacy?
Confidenceis not about being physically tough or strong, but about being able to:
- Share your thoughts, ideas, and comments assertively with others.
- Request help when you need it.
- Apologize and accept defeat.
弹力即使事情很困难，也可以在失败后反弹，重试以及努力工作的能力。这也是关于在新情况下采用变化和灵活的。
自我倡导encompasses the ability to:
- Request help when you need it.
- Request changes or environmental modifications and assertively express the reasons for your requests.
- To stand up for yourself.
Confidence, resilience, and self-advocacy look different in different situations, for different people, in different cultures, and at different ages.
Why Do Children Need Confidence, Resilience, and Self-Advocacy?
听力损失的儿童将在每个年龄和阶段面临新的挑战。在早期，看护人是他们的拥护者，确保他们在教育和社会环境中获得蓬勃发展所需的支持和环境修改。
However, as a child grows and becomes an adult, they must be able to request help and environmental modifications independently and confidently to navigate the obstacles of daily life in a fast-paced, connected world, and in an ever-changing job market. Promoting self-confidence, resilience, and self-advocacy skills in children with hearing loss early sets them up to succeed.
How Can We Build Confidence, Resilience, and Self-Advocacy in Children?
Here are some simple ways to help your child develop confidence, resilience, and self-advocacy.
Attitudes
- 表现出对孩子的听力损失和使用听力设备的自信态度。
- Use positive language and model a ‘can-do’ approach when responding to questions and comments about hearing loss from your child and others. Your child will likely respond to questions and comments from others in the way you do.
- Demonstrate polite and assertive requests for adaptions as a model for how your child can begin to make such requests in the future.
Information
- Equip the people around you with accurate information about hearing loss, how your child’s hearing devices work and how they help your child, basic device troubleshooting, communication strategies, and environmental modifications.
- Demonstrate how to explain and convey that information to others in a simple way, so that your child can learn from you how to express this information. One way of doing this may be to complete一起为教室的“关于我的一切”讲义with your child. Your child is more likely to ask for what they need if they know what helps them and how to ask.
Peers & Role Models
- 寻找您所在地区或在线供您的孩子见面或联系的团体，其他孩子，青少年和成年人。结识其他有听力损失的人，您的孩子可以讨论障碍和挑战，分享实用的技巧和技巧，并获得同伴支持。
- Followadvocates and role models on social media. Share role model’s successes with your child to highlight what is possible.
Opportunities
- Record your child’s performances, experiences, and achievements for them to share with others. Identify and develop your child‘s talents to inspire their confidence.
- Harness opportunities to encourage your child to develop their confidence or practice self-advocacy skills by:
- 做一个请求从一个陌生的人,这样的一个s a cashier.
- 在小组面前说话。
- Telling others about their hearing devices.
- Using communication strategies such as saying ‘can you please face me when speaking so I can lip read’, ‘Let’s move away from the noise so I can hear you more clearly’.
- Engage in problem-solving together to teach your child that setbacks, mistakes, and failures are inevitable, but an opportunity to learn. Encourage your child to try again when faced with a challenge and praise their effort and hard work in persisting with difficult tasks.
Looking for more ways to support your child with hearing loss? Then check out our在家中康复系列.
Learn how toset your child up for successat school.
看看这些self-advocacy tipsfor adults and teenagers.
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