PURPOSE To verify the applicability of a software in the (re)habilitation of hearing impaired children. METHODS The sample comprised 17 children with hearing impairment, ten with cochlear implants (CI) and seven with hearing aids (HA). The Software Auxiliar na Reabilitação de Distúrbios Auditivos - SARDA (Auxiliary Software for the Rehabilitation of Hearing Disorders) was used. The training p...

Psychoacoustic tes t s can give valuable information for pedagogical and technical rehabilitation of hearing-impaired subjects. The two tes t s described he re give a contribution to the development of such tests . 1) The intensity-discrimination t e s t showed la rge variations of DI between the subjects and no correlation between DI and hearing los s (more than 85 dB ). m 2) The F1 discrimina...

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...

This paper examines sentence repetition and narrative speech data produced by hearing-impaired and normally hearing children with matched gender, age and level of speech comprehension. We assessed these two kinds of speech styles by talker intelligibility, vowel space, and spike production in plosives. In both speaking styles, normally hearing children performed better in talker intelligibility...

Introduction Intervention and educational approaches ranging from oral language only to combined with various forms of sign have evolved. The aim this study was understand the choices for deaf/ hearing impaired child communication by parents using a survey questionnaire. objectives were adapt questionnaire given obtain information about mode process selection. Materials Methods Participants inc...

The study of the structure hearing pathology in schoolchildren Eastern Siiri was carried out with help RegionLor information system. regional features among were revealed, correlating results studies we conducted earlier.
 Purpose. To increase effectiveness specialized personalized medical care for children impairments Siberia based on analysis otopathology using system.
 Results. det...

It may be difficult for hearing-impaired people to communicate with people who hear. In the health care area, there is often little awareness of the communication barriers faced by the deaf and, in dentistry, the attitude adopted towards the deaf is not always correct. A review is given of the basic rules and advice given for communicating with the hearing-impaired. The latter are classified in...

Exposure to modified speech has been shown to benefit language-learning impaired children with respect to their language skills (Tallal et al., 1996; Merzenich et al., 1998). In the study by Tallal and colleagues, the speech modification consisted of both slowing down and amplifying fast, transitional elements of speech. In this study, we examined whether the benefits of modified speech could b...