AUDIOLOGY JAPAN
Online ISSN : 1883-7301
Print ISSN : 0303-8106
ISSN-L : 0303-8106
The Habilitation Program for the Hard of Hearing Children at the National Center of Speech and Hearing Disorders, and its Results
Taiko HayakawaTadanobu Tsunoda
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1968 Volume 11 Issue 2 Pages 103-112

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Abstract

The authors applied the acoupedic approach to forty children who suffered from sensory neural hearing loss for three years.
The methods, the results and added some views are summarized as follows.
1. Most children had visited two or three hospitals before they came to the clinic at the center. But it was only 27.5% of the children who had been recommended to use the hearing aids. And also, only 15% of them was using the hearing aids in their daily life.
The authors strongly stress the need of increasing the number of speech and hearing clinics where handicapped children can receive necessary habilitation program.
2. The retardation in language developement was found in all of them. The retardation is larger in the children of older age, and the early finding and the early training are considered to be the most important.
3. The habilitation program at our center consists of the acoupedic approach and the well planned listning program.
The children were trained and checked at the clinic once a week and the families were asked to perform the listning program intensively at home.
The later is especially important in order to cover the lack of the time of the formal training.
This combined use of the two methods has made it possible to send the hard of hearing children up to 70dB to the ordinary school in three years.
The authors are convinced that the combined method could be worth to apply to the severely hard of hearing children beyond 70dB in their early life.
4. The authors are planning to produce sufficient number of teachingtapes and to develop easy-to-use materials inorder to efficiate the auditory training at home.

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