The effect of preschool educational settings on voice problems of children with severe hearing loss.

Assessment and Intervention Programmes for Hearing‐impaired Infants in Teikyo University Hospital

“…This table shows the age when they started to receive our programmes, die intelligibility of the syllable, the correct percent of articulation, the evaluation of die severity of die voice problems, and die reading ability by achievement tests according to hearing level. The auditory perceptual ability and the severity of voice problems have a close relationship with hearing level, with severity increasing as the hearing level Much attention should be paid to the children with hearing impairment of 90-110 dB, because individual differences such as the auditory perceptual ability and speech production skills are likely to be observed owing to the influences of educational settings such as the communication method; educational environments and amplification (Hirota, 1986b). Children with serious hearing impairment can acquire sufficient language ability by the auditory-oral method after the hometraining programme under appropriate educational setting.…”