Teaching language components to deaf/hard-of-hearing and cochlear implant users: a literature review

This study aimed at reviewing scientific articles that described empirical research with interventions and/or teaching methods of various language repertoires to deaf and hard-of-hearing cochlear implant users. The review was carried out in five scientific databases considering all periods. On the first phase, 156 articles were identified and from these, 24 publications were selected. After being read, these articles were categorized and analyzed as to the participants, teaching targets and procedures adopted. On the last stage of the research, 10 experimental studies were selected and analyzed regarding procedures and results, indicating important factors in teaching this population. The results point to the necessity of an increase of scientific production in the construction and evaluation of effective verbal repertoires teaching programs for cochlear implant users.RESUMO O indiv íduo com deficiência auditiva encontra no implante coclear um dispositivo de reabilitação da capacidade de detectar sons e de inserção no meio social, acadêmico e do trabalho. No entanto, em muitos casos, apenas o implante não é suficiente, sendo necessário investimento na reabilitação d e habilidades auditivas e da linguagem expressiva para otimizar o uso do dispositivo. O presente estudo teve como objetivo revisar artigos científicos que apresentem estudos empíricos da aplicação de intervenções e/ou métodos de ensino de repertórios de linguagem diversos a população com d ef...
Source: Revista CEFAC - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research