Cochlear implantation: coordination of medical specialists and teachers of the deaf
Almanac #21 · Issue #1 · 2015
The parents’ choice while making the decision about cochlear implant
While cochlear implantation for children with hearing disorders is continuing to increase, it demands modernization of practice of teaching the deaf and special enlightening work with the parents. As the author believes, the effectiveness of cochlear implantation depends on the quality of the teachers of the deaf accompaniment of the implanted child and on the character of speech interaction with intimate adults.
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The parents’ choice while making the decision about cochlear implant
CIcochlear implantation
convention on the rights of the disabled
support of the deaf
self-sufficient cultural and linguistic minority of the deaf
The modern achievements of cochlear implantation. Medical achievements
Cochlear implants (CI) represent biomedical electronic deviceы, which provide sound transformation into electric impulses with the aim of creation of the hearing sense by means of direct stimulation of the survived auditory nerve fibers.
Keywords
The modern achievements of cochlear implantation. Medical achievements
CIcochlear implantation
audiology
biomedical electronic devices
hearing system
electric stimulation of the auditory nerve
binaural implantation.
Candidates selection for implantation: the teacher of the deaf investment
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The patients selection starts from the examination, when the indications for the cochlear implantation are detected. At the same time medical, psychological and pedagogical aspects should be taken into account. Therefore the diagnostics is carried out with participation of specialists in different fields, the each of them has his own strictly specified role.
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Candidates selection for implantation: the teacher of the deaf investment
cochlear implantcochlear implantation
support of deaf children
pedagogy ща еру deaf
interaction of a parent and a child
Teacher of the deaf accompaniment of a child and his family during the period of preparation for surgery and hospital stay
It may take a much time enough since the moment of taking the positive decision to the surgery. We emphasize, that waiting time mustn’t be lost for the child’s development. Therefore the special pedagogical work is necessary with the child and with the family as well.
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Teacher of the deaf accompaniment of a child and his family during the period of preparation for surgery and hospital stay
CIcochlear implantation
teacher of the deaf tasks
senso-neural deafness
hearing prosthesis
special work of the teacher of the deaf
The stage of speech processor connection, its primary adjustment: an audiologist and a teacher of the deaf.
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The speech processor connection takes place in 4-6 weeks after the surgery. This work includes both: an audiologist and a teacher of the deaf.
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The stage of speech processor connection, its primary adjustment: an audiologist and a teacher of the deaf.
CIcochlear implantation
speech processor adjustment
adjustment sessions
audiology
deaf pedagogy
The initial stage of rehabilitation –the key role of the pedagogue
As soon as the child gets physical possibility of hearing because of the operation , he isn’t able to use the new possibilities right away. Therefore a new task appears- to induce and teach him to use them.
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The initial stage of rehabilitation –the key role of the pedagogue
CIcochlear implantation
communication
interaction of a parent and a child
index of the successful rehabilitation
Normal early ontogenesis as a reference point for the teacher of the deaf at the initial stage of rehabilitation of a child with a cochlear implant
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The meaning of cochlear implantation and the further rehabilitation the teachers of the deaf of the domestic scientific school see in the child’s conversion to the natural way of development.
Keywords
Normal early ontogenesis as a reference point for the teacher of the deaf at the initial stage of rehabilitation of a child with a cochlear implant
CIcochlear implantation
development of hearing function
normal hearing ontogenesis
interaction
emotional development
emotional dialogue
Selection of the educational environment appropriate for the new possibilities of a child and his further accompaniment
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Selection of the further educational route for the implanted children, who has successfully completed the initial period of rehabilitation and got into the way of natural development of communication, - is a difficult and crucial task for the teacher of the deaf and the family. The main reference points for its solution are included in approaching of the child’s development to the age norm, as well as understanding of the prospects of further approaching of the child to the norm in different educational conditions.
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Selection of the educational environment appropriate for the new possibilities of a child and his further accompaniment
cochlear implantationeducational route
rehabilitation of the child with CI
development variants
special work
age norm
groups of children with CI
The teacher of the deaf aims at the different rehabilitation stages.
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After the consecutive study of the rehabilitation stages of children with cochlear implants we showed that the each of them needs a teacher of the deaf. From stage to stage the tasks, he needs to solve, are changing.
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The teacher of the deaf aims at the different rehabilitation stages.
Cochlear implantationrehabilitation of the child with CI
psycho-pedagogical assessment of a child with CI
development variants
the teacher of the deaf tasks
psychological adaptation
selection of the educational environment
pedagogical accompaniment.
Status change of a child with a cochlear implant at the different rehabilitation stages
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Before the moment of the speech processor connection the teacher of the deaf deals with children with severe hearing disorders, whose status is determined and known. A child can be characterized as a deaf, hearing impaired with severe hearing loss, as a one, who became deaf (who has kept speech or who is being losing it), as a deaf child with complex disorders. Before the moment of the speech processor connection the existing customary classification is sufficient for successful work of the teacher of the deaf. They are used as the reference points for formation of the great necessity differentiated approach to teaching. At the current stage traditional professional competencies are sufficient for the specialist.
Keywords
Status change of a child with a cochlear implant at the different rehabilitation stages
CIcochlear implantation
speech processor connection
pedagogy of the deaf
communication reconstruction
interaction of a child with parents
teacher of the deaf tasks.
The modern literature search tool for the different stages of rehabilitation of the child with cochlear implant
In consequence of that the child’s status during the cochlear implantation operation and the following rehabilitation is being changed, parents and specialists need different reference points and varied professional literature at the different stages of work.
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The modern literature search tool for the different stages of rehabilitation of the child with cochlear implant
electronic libraryspecial psychology
special pedagogy
defectology
professionally orientated search
literature concerning CI
cochlear implantation