Ensino de leitura na educação dos surdos: análise dos recursos pedagógicos mediados pela Libras

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Avaliação do efeito de um programa de ensino de leitura e escrita sobre a fala de crianças usuárias de implante coclear

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Caracterização de desempenhos envolvidos na leitura e na escrita em crianças com deficiência auditiva

Pós-graduação em Psicologia do Desenvolvimento e Aprendizagem - FC

A inclusão de crianças surdas em classe de ensino regular numa escola pública de ensino fundamental: realidade e perspectivas

Pós-graduação em Psicologia - FCLAS

Deficiência auditiva referida em inquérito de saúde no município de Botucatu, ISA-SP, 2001-02

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Implante coclear: quem são seus usuários

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Emergência de relações numéricas em crianças surdas

Os estudos sobre a formação de classes ordinais têm apresentado diversos achados experimentais relevantes para a compreensão das relações entre estímulos em seqüências. O objetivo deste trabalho foi o de replicar sistematicamente os resultados obtidos com crianças e adultos normais (Estudo 1) usando um procedimento de ensino por encadeamento e verificar se esses resultados se manteriam sob controle condicional (Estudo 2) com crianças surdas, usando apenas estímulos visuais, através de um ensino de encadeamento de respostas motoras. Participaram do Estudo 1 sete crianças com grau profundo de surdez, na fase de alfabetização em língua de sinais. Foi programado um procedimento de encadeamento de respostas com três conjuntos de estímulos: A nomes impressos dos números, B numerais em língua brasileira de sinais (LIBRAS), C formas abstratas em quantidades diferentes. Para os três tipos de estímulos os valores eram de 1 a 6. No Estudo 2 cinco outras crianças surdas foram submetidas ao mesmo procedimento de ensino, porém, o participante deveria responder na presença da cor vermelha na seqüência A1A2A3 A4A5A6 e na presença da cor verde na seqüência 6A5A4A3A2A1. Nos dois estudos, após responder corretamente a cada seqüência, uma animação gráfica era apresentada na tela, a experimentadora elogiava com as palavras muito bem, certo, legal em linguagem de sinais. Caso o participante emitisse qualquer outra resposta, a tela se embranquecia por um segundo e uma nova configuração dos estímulos era apresentada aleatoriamente. As sessões experimentais eram realizadas na sala de aula de uma instituição pública especializada. Foi utilizado um Laptop e um software especialmente desenvolvido para coleta de dados comportamentais. Após treino e revisão da linha de base com as três seqüências de respostas, testes eram aplicados para avaliar transitividade e conectividade na emergência de classes ordinais através da disposição de pares de estímulos não 14 adjacentes e de substitutabilidade de estímulos. Os resultados mostraram que os participantes responderam prontamente em ambos os estudos. Conclui-se que o procedimento é eficiente na aquisição de comportamentos conceituais numéricos e que a emergência de classes de estímulos equivalentes também ocorre fora do formato de emparelhamento de acordo com o modelo, mesmo em crianças surdas.

Uso de aparelho de amplificação sonora individual por idosos: estudo SABE - saúde, bem- estar e envelhecimento

PURPOSE: Describe hearing aid use by the elderly population in the city of São Paulo and identify associated factors. METHODS: A cross-sectional, descriptive, quantitative study integrated with the SABE (health, well-being and aging) project developed in 2006. A total of 1.115 individuals aged 65 or over were interviewed. Sample selection occurred in two stages, with replacement and probabilities proportional to the population to complement those aged 75 or over. Structured questionnaires and validated instruments were used. The data were weighted, the Rao-Scott test was used for univariate analysis and backward stepwise logistic regression was used for multivariate analysis, performed on Stata 10® software. RESULTS: Three hundred and seventy-seven subjects (30.4%) were classified as hearing impaired and 10.1% of these reported using hearing aids. To acquire the devices, 78.8% used their own resources and 16.9% acquired them through the Brazilian public health system (SUS). Among non-users of hearing aids, 16.6% reported prior indication; however, 8.6% were unable to adapt to the device and 8.0% could not afford to acquire one. Hearing aid use was associated with lower prevalence of probable dementia. CONCLUSION: The low number of hearing aid users indicates the difficulties elderly people face in acquiring them and/or that the health services face in effectively helping them to adapt. These findings may influence the quality of life of elderly with hearing impairment, given the association with probable dementia revealed by this study.

Uma investigação sobre o papel do interlocutor de libras como mediador em aulas de física para alunos com deficiência auditiva

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

TACTILE CARTOGRAPHY EXPERIENCES IN BRAZIL: METHODOLOGIES AND DIDACTICAL MATERIAL WITH TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES FOR INCLUSION OF BLIND AND LOW VISION STUDENTS

The tactile cartography is an area of Cartography that aims the development of methodologies and didactical material to work cartographic concepts with blind and low vision people. The main aim of this article is to present the experience of Tactile Cartography Research Group from Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), including some didactical material and courses for teachers using the System MAPAVOX. The System MAPAVOX is software developed by our research group in a partnership with Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) that integrates maps and models with a voice synthesizer, sound emission, texts, images and video visualizing for computers. Our research methodology is based in authors that have in the students the centre of didactical activity such as Ochaita and Espinosa in [1], which developed studies related to blind children's literacy. According to Almeida the child's drawing is, thus, a system of representation. It isn't a copy of objects, but interpretation of that which is real, done by the child in graphic language[2]. In the proposed activities with blind and low vision students they are prepared to interpret reality and represent it by adopting concepts of graphic language learned. To start the cartographic initialization it is necessary to use personal and quotidian references, for example the classroom tactile model or map, to include concepts in generalization and scale concerning to their space of life. During these years many case studies were developed with blind and low vision students from Special School for Hearing Impaired and Visually Impaired in Araras and Rio Claro, Sao Paulo - Brazil. The most part of these experiences and others from Brazil and Chile are presented in [3]. Tactile material and MAPAVOX facilities are analysed by students and teachers who contribute with suggestions to reformulate and adapt them to their sensibility and necessity. Since 2005 we offer courses in Tactile Cartography to prepare teachers from elementary school in the manipulation of didactical material and attending students with special educational needs in regular classroom. There were 6 classroom and blended courses offered for 184 teachers from public schools in this region of the Sao Paulo state. As conclusion we can observe that methodological procedures centred in the blind and low vision students are successful in their spatial orientation if use didactical material from places or objects with which they have significant experience. During the applying of courses for teachers we could see that interdisciplinary groups can find creative cartographic alternatives more easily. We observed too that the best results in methodological procedures were those who provided concreteness to abstract concepts using daily experiences.

A formação do professor no século XXI e a educação inclusiva

This paper describes the history of Inclusive Education in Brazil, especially the inclusion of studentes with hearing disabilities im mathematics classes in regular schools. Shows the difficulties faced by these students in the teaching and learning based on inclusive education researchers, we propose some changes in behavior to meet the hearing impaired. The importance of the teaching profession, the teacher and the school culture, as well as the political-pedagogical project are also subjects of this work. With this work, we see the development of Inclusive Education in our country and how we can help you advance further

Ecóico e nomeação de figuras em crianças com deficiência auditiva pré-lingual com implante coclear

The aim of this work was to verify the effect of teaching the echoic behavior over the pictures naming in four children between eight and nine years old with prelingual hearing impaired, users of cochlear implants. The design adopted was: (a) pre-training that taught the matching-to-sample task; (b) pre-tests that selected three words to teach; (c) teaching of auditory-visual conditional relations; (d) naming pos-test; (e) the teaching of echoic with orofacial clues and, (f) the second naming pos-test. In the pre-test all participants achieved smaller percentage of correct on naming (60%-80%) and echoic (20%-50%) when compared to percentages word recognition (86%-93%). All participants learned the auditory-visual relations. The improvement on naming test occurred after auditory training select based for two participants; for other two participants the improvement on naming test occurred just after the training of echoic. Analysis of data showed that the listening and speaking performances are independent in their establishment and require specific conditions of teaching; in the case of this study, even though the result is not generalized to all participants, the highest correspondence into point to point naming was obtained following the teaching of echoic.

Ensino de ecoico, tato e mando: uma revisão bibliográfica dos artigos do Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA)

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Ear and electrode effects reduce within-group variability in middle latency response amplitude measures

Objectives: To establish normative amplitude values for relative difference measurements of the middle latency response (MLR) in normal-hearing pediatrics and to determine if these measurements provided a significant reduction of within-group variability when compared to raw, absolute amplitude measures. A relative amplitude difference is defined in the present paper as the difference in Na-Pa amplitude between two electrodes (e.g. vertical bar Na-Pa at C3 minus Na-Pa at C4 vertical bar, or electrode effects) or between two ears (e.g. vertical bar Na-Pa on left ear stimulation minus Na-Pa on right ear stimulation vertical bar, or ear effects). In contrast, an absolute amplitude is defined as a single Na-Pa measurement made at one electrode for stimulation of one ear (e.g. Na-Pa measured at C3 on left ear stimulation). Design: Cross-sectional study. Study sample: 155 pediatrics with normal peripheral and central hearing, and no history of psychological, neurological, or learning disability issues. Results: Within-group variability was significantly smaller for relative differences when compared to absolute amplitude measures. Electrode effects showed significantly less variability than ear effects. Normative values for ear and electrode effects were reported. Conclusions: Relative differences may provide better utility in the clinical diagnosis of central auditory pathology in pediatrics when compared to absolute amplitude measures because these difference measures show significantly lower variability when examined across subjects.

Retrolabyrinthine approach for surgical placement of auditory brainstem implants in children

Conclusion: The extended retrolabyrinthine approach (RLA) is a safe and reliable approach for auditory brainstem placement in children. The surgical landmarks to reach cochlear nucleus are adequately exposed by this approach. Objective: To describe a new approach option for auditory brainstem implants (ABIs) in children, highlighting the anatomical landmarks to appropriately expose the foramen of Luschka. Methods: Three prelingually deafened children consecutively operated for ABIs via the RLA. Results: ABI placement via the RLA was successfully performed in all children without any further complications except multidirectional nystagmus in one child. The RLA we employed differed from that used for vestibular schwannoma only in the removal of the posterior semicircular canal. The lateral and superior semicircular canals and the vestibule remained intact, and there was no need to expose the dura of the internal auditory meatus. The jugular bulb was completely exposed to allow adequate visualization of the ninth cranial nerve and cerebellar flocculus.