Long-term effects of auditory training in severely or profoundly deaf children
Catégorie
Journal Article
Auteurs
Rochette, F., Bigand, E.
Année
2009
Titre
Long-term effects of auditory training in severely or profoundly deaf children
Journal / Livre / Conférence
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Résumé
Despite new technological advances in the rehabilitation of audition in profoundly deaf children, auditory training remains a fundamental part of their education. Consequently, it is necessary to learn what kind of stimuli, what kind of auditory tasks, and what kind of learning procedures generate faster and more long-lasting benefits. The present study evaluates a training program that includes numerous nonlinguistic stimuli that tap into several means of cognitive processing. The program is based on an implicit learning procedure and was tested with six severely or profoundly deaf children. The first results demonstrate an improvement in nonlinguistic performances on both accuracy and processing times. These results were evident immediately after the auditory training, and most of the effects remains stable 6 months later. Moreover, the children show a better discrimination of linguistic sounds. These results open the possibility of new approaches in speech therapy.
Volume
1169
Pages
195-198