2016, Number 4
Anatomical physiological and neurological budgets of language and communication in children with hearing impairment
Medina PR
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Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: communication in children with hearing impairment is a condition for joining the school and social life. The hearing status on them hinders the formation of language and thus its impact on his personality. This reveals some of the main bases related to the production of language in these children.Objective: to analyze the verbal functional system, that allows a theoretical approach of language mechanism in cases of hearing loss.
Methods: the exploration of language was applied from the BEALDA battery, which allowed in evaluating the state of hearing and language. The proposal was submitted to expert criteria and a sample of 10 children aged between three and five years old from the Pelusín Day Care Center in the municipality of Holguin was selected. Surveys and interviews with teachers, speech therapists, families and executives were also applied.
Results: ten children (the selected sample) developed verbal communication, the use of mimicry learned at home decreased and their oral language was developed, both in receptive and expressive way. This allowed the specialists to have recourse to language stimulation in their training and development, as well as in speech therapy from early childhood. The experts consulted agreed that 98% areas and phases proposed help stimulate language and communication of children with hearing impairment.
Conclusions: the study showed that the knowledge of the anatomical and physiological and neurological foundations of sign language allows to organize the speech therapy for communication development and its training for school learning process.
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