Kontakt 2008, 10(2):374-381 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2008.057

Profile of children with cochlear implantates in the Heidelberg speech evolution testHealth and Social Sciences

Milena Nosková
Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Pedagogická fakulta, katedra českého jazyka a literatury

The human speech is one of the most perfect means of the human communication. The complex development of the speech capacity is an important assumption for functioning of individuals within the framework of the given social system and also assumption for the social education orientation and literacy. The human society is dependent on the hearing perception. It is considered that man acquires as much as 65% of information about the surrounding world through the acoustic channel. Auditory perception is one of principal cognitive processes, which is associated with further processes, which are in the final consequences associated with the highest forms - thinking and speech. Hearing involvement deprives people not only of the world of sounds, but it also eliminates them from the network of inter-individual communication. Just the impossibility of communication is the most important aspect of this sensory involvement.
The contribution deals with the production of the speech in pre-lingually deaf children, who were surgically provided with cochlear implantate (henceforth CI). The target of the work was to compare the production of the speech in three groups of children: a) children with severe auditory involvements with the CI b) children with auditory involvements who use audiphones to correct their hearing c) children of the same age without hearing involvements (experimental or intact group). The language level of children was determined with the help of the Heidelberg speech evolution test (henceforth H-S-E-T). The result of the work demonstrated the fact that the cochlear implantate offers a certain prognosis of the correction and the cochlear implantation with subsequent rehabilitation makes the deaf children possible to enter the normal world of sounds and to communicate with hearing individuals.

Keywords: production of speech; deafness; child; cochlear implantation; Heidelberg speech evolution test

Received: August 18, 2008; Accepted: September 18, 2008; Prepublished online: October 17, 2008; Published: December 17, 2009  Show citation

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Nosková M. Profile of children with cochlear implantates in the Heidelberg speech evolution test. Kontakt. 2008;10(2):374-381. doi: 10.32725/kont.2008.057.
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