Hearing loss in critical ages or before it often leads to serious damage to
the lingual and verbal ability in children. It causes limitation , sensational
problems and disability in communication and consequently creates
isolation , depression sociopsycological and emotional problems. Therefore
it is necessary to help a child to experience hearing , systemically and be
able to hear sounds easier and also to distinguish between them. We are
able to achieve this goal by auditory training program , consequently one
will be able to use his remains of hearing ability for sound perception in the
best way.
In this experimental study 52 deaf children (under the age of 7 years)
were studied in Hamadan . They were divided in two groups , each consist
of 26 children on the basis of their IQ and the degree of loss of hearing. In
test group the children were familiarized with sign communication method
and also with verbal communication method, while children in control
group only used sign language for communication and they had no
information about verbal communication method.
The research findings showed implication of auditory training program
caused lingual and verbal development in children under 7 year in
Hamadan. Children with more hearing remains had better verbal lingual
growth than those with less hearing remains. Also there was no relation
between sex and age and verbal lingual growth in this group. In other word
familiarity with verbal communication method is the main factor for verbal
lingual growth in this group.
Finding revealed that after administering auditory training program ,
distinguishing and identifying verbal and nonverbal method developed
better than control group.
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