Developing hearing skills in children users of cochlear implant: therapeutic strategies / Desenvolvendo as habilidades auditivas em crianças usuárias de implante coclear: estratégias terapêuticas

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

This work aimed at investigating therapeutic strategies to aid in speech therapy intervention, as to the development of hearing skills such attention, detection, discrimination, recognition, memory and understanding of children presented with hearing impairment, users of CI. A material comprising a book and an illustrative DVD to guide speech therapists, was compiled. Seventeen female speech therapists, responsible for the aurioral therapy of 17 implanted children, received this guiding material and utilized it for a six-month period, during which they assessed both the material and the children who underwent periodical evaluations as for the development of hearing abilities, at the Audiological Research Center (CPA) with the Craniofacial Anomalies Rehabilitation Hospital (HRAC) of the São Paulo University (USP). All children progressed in terms of hearing and language, as assessed by the Development Integrated Scales and IT-MAIS questionnaire All, but one, progressed as for Hearing Categories. All strategies used were regarded as quite good or excellent as for the easy understanding and access to the material suggested. The easy execution and motivation of the child, as strategies were performed, tended to improve according to their sequential utilization. The accomplishment of goals set in the strategies was directly influenced by the easy execution and motivation of the child. It was concluded that the aurioral speech therapy with therapeutic strategies elaborated out of ludic activities suitable for the child´s cognitive development, contributed to the development of hearing and language skills, in a six-month intervention period.

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language development implante coclear desenvolvimento da linguagem reabilitação de deficientes auditivos rehabilitation of hearing impaired percepção da fala speech perception cochlear implantation

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