中高度聴覚障害児の音声障害と幼児期の指導との関係

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As factors affecting the voice problems of hearing impaired children, the level of hearing loss, preschool educational setting and different language media have been considered. One hundred and twelve children with moderate and severe hearing impairments who attended regular primary schools were selected for the present investigation to study acoustic analysis, articulation and speech discrimination. Consequently, 1) severe hearing-impaired children were found to be accompanied by a number of impairments according to the degree of voice problems. 2) Articulation and speech discrimination of hearing-impaired children who attended special preschools for the deaf was worse than that of those who attended regular kindergartens, and rate of utterances was low. 3) Children who were applied manual communication as language media showed remarkable problems on suprasegmental aspects (pitch, intonation, variation of intensity and rate of utterance) than those who were educated by auditory-oral method. As for speech intelligibility, children taught by manual communication showed slighter problems than those by auditory-oral method. 4) Different educational settings affecting the voice problems of hearing-impaired children was smaller than different hearing level. 5) Language ability was not affected by such factors like hearing loss or different educational setting.
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