Based on the survey of 79 young children with hearing loss after suffering an acute otitis media there was identified a slowdown compared with normal hearing peers. With this speech development suffered more, in particular, a distorted development of its components was revealed. Despite the fact that patients demonstrated the ability to make contact with adults quickly and easily, they did not try to share with them the emotions, rarely smiling, avoided looking of an adult. Actions of children were not accompanied by speech. In object-gaming activities for children with hearing loss no significant deviations compared with normal hearing peers were detected. In the cognitive development most of children with hearing loss (67 infants) showed results that matched the age norm. The backlog of social development of such children primarily manifested in the low level of activity and initiative in relation to adults. The results should be taken into account in a comprehensive survey of young children after an acute otitis media.