Behavior Problems and Students with Hearing Loss

Do children with hearing loss exhibit behavior problems? Sure-all children do to some degree. Are the behavior problems caused by hearing loss? No. Hearing loss may contribute to frustration, but it does not directly influence a child to misbehave. The student can't do something that sends them to the principal's office, then say, "It wasn't my fault! My hearing loss caused me to throw the book at the teacher!"  They make the choice to misbehave out of their own volition (this goes way back when Adam and Eve chose to disobey God). Although I can understand why children with hearing loss may want to misbehave, I don't condone it. Hearing loss can contribute to some small behavior issues, but it doesn't cause the problems. Students make their own choice to be bad if that's what they want. I can see how this can be a confusing post, so I hope I am making sense. I may give some scenarios in later posts to further illustrate my point.