Lola's Special Needs Awareness Blog: #AboutLastNight on My Weekly Special Needs Awareness Radio Show

#AboutLastNight

The Special Needs Radio Show last night @ Kiss99.9 Fm was a recap of all that we had been discussing for the past 2 weeks on Hearing and Speech Impairment. Yesterday's radio show was quite different because the phone line was left opened for about 40 minutes to enable our audience call in to ask us questions.

Mr.Charles Ugwuoke (the Audiometrician and Speech Therapist at Dewdrops Community Centre for Special Needs Abuja) started by recapping last week/two weeks program on hearing and speech impairment. He explained the different hearing losses, what hearing impairment is, types of hearing loss, conductive, sensorineural, mixed and neural hearing loss. He also talked about the degrees of hearing loss which ranges from mild, moderate, severe and profound hearing loss and their thresholds. Mr Charles further explained speech impairment which he categorized under dysarthria and types of dysarthria which are Cerebellar, pseudobulbar, bulbar and cortical dysarthria. He also talked about other speech impairment such as aphonia, aphasia.

He also explained some speech therapy services for individuals with speech impairment such as, receptive language and expressive language skills, lip reading therapy skills for children who are pre/post lingually hearing impaired.

Listeners called in to ask questions and he responded accordingly. Of particular interest was a question by a listener, concerning a stroke patient with memory loss and speech impairment. Mr Charles responded by explaining that the cerebral cortex and the two hemispheres (right and left) and their connection to the stroke and also the four lobes of the brain which are frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal lobes, he explained that receptive and expressive language skills will enable the patient to regain the lost speech.

Dr. PJ Fakudze and I also emphasised on the importance of a comprehensive audiological assessments in order to determine the nature of hearing loss which would help determine the appropriate intervention.

Let's do this again next week, same time same station.

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