Psychological Stress of Mothers of Children with Cochlear Implants

The family is considered the first environment that receives the child and affects his personality, and its shortcomings negatively affect him, whether in his perceptual and cognitive abilities or life and social skills. Every family has hopes for their child before his birth, as the parents arrange their wishes and what each of them hopes for in their child, but the family members are shocked as a result of the birth. The child with a disability, then the shock moves to denial and then to acceptance of the reality and then search for services that help the child to get out of this crisis safely. The family faces many obstacles depending on the nature of the services that the child needs, according to the nature of the disability that he suffers from. These obstacles and the extent of their ability to overcome or adapt to them affect the ways they communicate with their child and the extent of his compatibility with his society, as the nature of these pressures varies according to the type and nature of the disability that he suffers including their children.