難聴児のインテグレーション成績と高度難聴乳幼児における手話の獲得

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Data on academic achievement was analyzed for 37 hearing-impaired students who were trained by the Kanazawa Method (written language-auditory method) yourger than school age. Thirteen had severe and profound deafness of more than 90 dB ; others had mild and moderate loss under 89 dB. All subjects had attended regular school from the age of six. 77% of the students were middle and above in their class in the severe and profound group, and 71% in the mild and moderate group. The remainder, who are academic failures, had already showed insufficient language development at the age of six.<BR>As another study, acquisition of sign language by the children with severe hearing-impairedness was compared with their acquisition of written language and oral language. Eight severely hearing-impaired subjects, whose hearing losses were more than about 100 dB, were taught sign, written and oral language. Acquisition of sign language was significantly easier than that of oral language. These results suggested that early presentation of sign language is effective in the program of language training for the severely hearing-impaired. From subsequent training with one of these subjects, it has been seen that early presentation of sign language with written and oral language serves to promote acquisition of the oral language.
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