[Developmental problems and risks of children and adolescents with severe hearing impairment--a challenge for intervention by child and adolescent psychiatrists]

Abstract

Considering special developmental risks and burdens of this group of children the dimensions of the multiaxial classification system prove to be a useful diagnostic framework. Especially severe and multiple communication impairments are important specific abnormal psychosocial circumstances for deaf and severe hard-off hearing children and adolescents. Finally some modest but nevertheless important tasks for child and youth psychiatrists are pointet out.