HEARING-
Why do we need to hear?
Hearing is important for many things, mainly relating to communication. When you are talking to your friends or talking to your teacher or parent, the listening that you are doing is because of your sense of hearing. You can explain to your child that if everyone could speak, but not hear, then no one would be able to listen to each other. It is also important sense to have in dangerous situations. If a smoke alarm goes off in your house, you use your sense of hearing to recognize the sound so that you can get out of your house incase there is a fire. You also use your sense of hearing in the car to listen to traffic on the radio, or listen for sirens.
How does it work?
We hear with our ears. It is the sense of sound perception. Vibrations go through a medium such as air creating sound as we know it. Therefore, the ability to detect these vibrations is the sense of sound. The vibrations are detected through your eardrum and tiny little bones and hairs in your ear. You can explain to your child that someone that does not have a sense of hearing, is Deaf. By exposing your children to the cause of disabilities and by explaining to them what different disabilities are, your child can grow up to be more accepting and understanding of people that may be a little different then them.
What do we hear?
- Police car and fire engine sirens
- People talking
- Fire alarms
- Dogs barking
- People singing
- Car's honking
- Music on the radio
