Evaluation of the effect of a program of teaching reading and writing in the speech of children users of cochlear implants

• Grant number: 11/16035-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Experimental Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Ana Claudia Moreira Almeida Verdu
• Grantee: Fernando Del Mando Lucchesi
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências (FC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Bauru. Bauru , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Cochlear Implant is a device which allows its users to regain auditory sensations, mainly related to speech, however, it is necessary that the IC recipient pass through a rehabilitation process in order both to learn to deal with these new stimuli, and to establish a speech with point-to-point correspondence compared to that emitted by the verbal community in which is inserted. Studies regard the verbal behavior and the symbolic function operationalized by the paradigm of the stimulus equivalence stablish new education proposals of diferent beahaviors regarding the language, and the Program of Teaching Reading and Writing - Progleit is consolidated proposal arising from investments in scientific research in this area in last decades. The main objective of the present study is to evaluate the extensions of the effect of the individualized and computerized instructional program of reading and writing (Progleit 2.1) on the speech intelligibility of children with prelingual hearing loss and cochlear implant users. The implications of such research permeate, therefore, the practice of professionals involved in the process of (re) habilitation of this population, such as psychologists, speech therapists and teachers, creating opportunities for new features grounded on scientific data.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

FERNANDO DEL MANDO LUCCHESI; ANA CLAUDIA MOREIRA ALMEIDA-VERDU; MARIA JOSÉ MONTEIRO BENJAMIN BUFFA; MARIA CECÍLIA BEVILACQUA. Efeitos de um Programa de Ensino de Leitura sobre a Inteligibilidade da Fala de Crianças Usuárias de Implante Coclear. PSICOLOGIA-REFLEXAO E CRITICA, v. 28, n. 3, p. 500-510, 2015-09-00. (08/57705-8, 11/16035-2)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

LUCCHESI, Fernando Del Mando. Avaliação do efeito de um programa de ensino de leitura e escrita sobre a fala de crianças usuárias de implante coclear. 2013. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências. Bauru Bauru.