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Charts and Tables for Hearing Statistics

Los primeros 3 años de vida, cuando el cerebro está en proceso de desarrollo y maduración, es el período más intensivo en la adquisición de las habilidades del habla y el lenguaje.

La mayoría de los niños oyen y escuchan sonidos desde que nacen. Aprenden a hablar imitando los sonidos a su alrededor y las voces de sus padres y de las personas que los cuidan.

Algunos bebés nacen con problemas de audición. Otros nacen con la audición normal y comienzan a tener problemas de audición mientras crecen.

Most children hear and listen to sounds at birth. They learn to talk by imitating the sounds they hear around them and the voices of their parents and caregivers. But that’s not true for all children. In fact, about two or three out of every 1,000 children in the United States are born with detectable hearing loss in one or both ears. More lose hearing later during childhood. Children who have hearing loss may not learn speech and language as well as children who can hear. For this reason, it’s important to detect deafness or hearing loss as early as possible.

It’s important to know what to expect as your baby grows, because hearing problems can delay the development of voice, speech, and language skills. The checklist below presents the average age by which most babies accomplish a variety of early speech and language skills. Typically, a child may not accomplish all the items in an age category until he or she reaches the upper age in the age range.