CURRENT PROBLEMS OF ASSIGNING DISABILITY TO CHILDREN WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

As in all countries of the world, the number of children with disabilities in the Republic of Kazakhstan is growing every year. A large category of people with disabilities is children with hearing impairments. As of 2019, 200 000 people with hearing impairments were registered in Kazakhstan, including 700 children who had congenital hearing impairments. The saddest thing is that the number of such children increases by 5% annually. One out of 1000 people born is born deaf, and by the age of one, their number increases several times.

Children with hearing impairments do not receive early help from specialists due to the lack of necessary equipment and examination tools, and, in most cases, join the ranks of children with disabilities.

Changing the conditions for transition to a disability group during the period of majority not only limits their rights to maintain and restore health, but is also the main cause of lifelong disability.

The article discusses important conditions should be taken into account when assigning a disability to children with hearing impairment, the problems and consequences of not improving the mechanism for assigning them a disability, and suggests ways to solve them.

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