Generally, activities for independent living at schools the Deaf include various instructions in order to promote language development. Meanwhile, needs of children with hearing impairment can be diverse. For example, some aim actively use their hearing, whereas others desire sign as first language. Therefore, this study suggests that support must tailored each individual. Additionally, it is n...

Objectives: Auditory perception or hearing ability is critical for children in acquisition of language and speech; hence hearing loss has different effects on individuals’ linguistic perception, and also on their functions. It seems that deaf people suffer from language and speech impairments such as in perception of complex linguistic constructions. This research was aimed to study the percept...

Throughout the last century the clinical audiological field has seen a substantial development – nearly a revolution – in technology with the introduction and implementation of equipment for detection of hearing-impaired children, for diagnostic testing of hearing disorders, for restoration of hearing by surgery and for amelioration of hearing impairment (HI) – even profound by hearing instrume...

communication, cognition, language, and speech are interrelated and develop together. it should come as no surprise to us that the key to intervention with deaf children is to establish, as early as possible, a functional communication system for the child and the parents. early intervention programs need to be multidisciplinary, technologically sound and most important, it should take cognizan...

This paper studies speech data of 45 children with hearing impairment and 79 children with normal hearing in terms of their speech intelligibility, vowel production, and tone production. Age played an important role in the intelligibility scores and vowel space size of the normally hearing group. In contrast, only the word comprehension ability had a significant effect on the intelligibility sc...

PURPOSE To compare the Percentage of Consonants Correct (PCC) index of children with and without hearing loss, and to verify whether the time using hearing aids, the time in therapy, and the time spent until hearing loss was diagnosed influence the performance of deaf children. METHODS Participants were 30 children, 15 with hearing impairment and 15 with normal hearing, paired by gender and a...

Purpose: To compare the Percentage of Consonants Correct (PCC) index of children with and without hearing loss, and to verify whether the time using hearing aids, the time in therapy, and the time spent until hearing loss was diagnosed influence the performance of deaf children. Methods: Participants were 30 children, 15 with hearing impairment and 15 with normal hearing, paired by gender and a...