Post-lingual deafness

Post-lingual deafness is a deafness which develops after the acquisition of speech and language, usually after the

age of six. Post-lingual hearing impairments are far less common than prelingual deafness. Typically, hearing loss

is gradual, and often detected by family and friends of the people so affected long before the patients themselves

will acknowledge the disability.

Post-lingual deafness is a deafness which develops after the acquisition of speech and language, usually after
the age of six.
Post-lingual hearing impairments are far less common than prelingual deafness. Typically, hearing loss is gradual,
and often detected by family and friends of the people so affected long before the patients themselves will
acknowledge the disability.
The remaining 40-50% of all cases of congenital hearing loss are due to nongenetic effects, such as
prematurity, postnatal infections, ototoxic drugs, or maternal infection (with cytomegalovirus [CMV] or rubella).

Most cases of genetic hearing loss are autosomal recessive and nonsyndromic .
Congenital deafness: Loss of hearing present at birth or loss that may develop later but is due to genetic causes
or other influences that affected the fetus while it was in utero (in the womb).
The distinction between congenital and acquired deafness specifies only the time that the deafness appears. It
does not specify whether the cause of the deafness is genetic (inherited).
Congenital deafness may or may not be genetic. For example, it may be associated with a white forelock and
different colored eyes, caused by a genetic disease called Waardenburg syndrome. Congenital deafness may
also be due to something such as the rubella virus to which the mother was exposed during pregnancy.

The limited literature on adventitious deafness has identified in a

general sense the inadequacy of the rehabilitative system for this
condition.
Although medical intervention is a natural first step in rehabilitative care,
clearly forgotten in the pursuit to provide a "cure" is that adventitious
deafness is not only a medical condition, but also a psychosocial
phenomenon.

adventitious deafness
[‚ad·ven′tish·əs ′def·nəs]
(medicine)
A type of deafness that occurs at any point during a lifetime and may hav
e a course either of gradual,progressive development or of sudden onset.