The handicap is one of communication and language. They often do not understand the link between hearing and speaking. People do not understand how diverse hearing problems are. Two children can have the same hearing loss but it can affect them differently. Even a slight hearing loss can be a real problem for a child.
People think a hearing loss never alters.
It can vary from day to day or week to week for various reasons, such as the child having a cold causing a conductive loss on the top of a sensorineural loss. People think a hearing aid gives people normal hearing. An aid helps but is not a cure for deafness. It is good to let people listen through a hearing aid with the sound turned down. This gives them a more realistic idea of what it is like to listen through a hearing aid.