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Original Article

Development of Capacities of Communication and Socialization in Young Deaf Children: Utility of a Common Assessment Protocol for Implanted or Hearing Aid Equipped Children

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Pages 234-239 | Published online: 08 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

Pediatric cochlear implantation has attracted a growing interest among health professionals, but it has also encountered opposition in the deaf community. It is therefore incumbent upon the medical teams that carry out this procedure to furnish scientific arguments demonstrating the benefits of this technique for the age group 2 to 4 years and its innocuousness for the child's later psychological development. With this in mind, we have elaborated an assessment protocol adapted to very young deaf children, regardless of whether they have implants or hearing aids. the present report describes two tests of the protocol, chosen because they meet needs which until now have been insufficiently, or not, met. the first of these tests aims at assessing, as early as the age of two, oral and gestual pro'duction thanks to sequential imafgiK. the sernnd test is the most original element of our psychological protocol: analysis of the child's interactional attitudes through filmed game situations. the initial results from a group of children recently implanted and from another group equipped with hearing aids are presented. These children continue to be seen at regular intervals. It is reasonable to hope that this kind of study will afford objective arguments to the debate in progress

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