scholarly journals Como me Tornei um Estudante Universitário, apesar das Limitações da Deficiência Auditiva Bilateral / How I Became a College Student Despite the Limitations of Bilateral Hearing Impairment

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (58) ◽  
pp. 635-647
Author(s):  
Marcelo Augusto Lima da Silva ◽  
Jefferson Falcão Sales
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Genetic Alterations ◽  
Traditional Education ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Pedagogical Strategies ◽  
Different Levels

Resumo: Esse artigo é baseado no relato pessoal de um estudante, de Pedagogia, com deficiência auditiva bilateral, dando ênfase aos desafios e superações da pessoa com deficiência no ambiente educacional. Ademais, o presente texto aborda as principais características da deficiência auditiva e suas dificuldades no Ensino Tradicional. Segundo o Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), em 2020, cerca de 10 milhões de pessoas apresentavam deficiência auditiva, representando 5% da população brasileira. Além disso, é possível observar que existem causas biológicas que determinam diferentes níveis de audição, que impactam, diretamente, no desenvolvimento psicossocial e na interação social. De acordo com uma revisão de artigo da deficiência auditiva de alterações genéticas ou mutações no DNA mitocondrial, foi possível observar que, a grande maioria das pessoas com deficiência auditiva apresenta essa condição por causas genéticas. Nesse contexto, será contada a trajetória de um estudante de Pedagogia, desde o Ensino Fundamental até o Ensino Superior. Será ressaltado como o teatro mudou completamente sua vida e será mostrado como esse pensamento foi construído apesar das dificuldades de ouvir. Nesse âmbito, a pessoa com deficiência auditiva precisa mostrar as principais barreiras que dificultam sua interação social, promovendo inclusão, identificando crianças com deficiência auditiva e proporcionando estratégias pedagógicas e empoderando sua identidade. Além disso, minha experiência sendo pessoa com deficiência auditiva será essencial para ser futuramente um educador com deficiência auditiva. Apesar das limitações, é possível aprender e educar. Vale destacar a importância da pessoa com deficiência auditiva na formação do professor, motivando outras pessoas com deficiência como também as pessoas que não possuem nenhuma deficiência.Palavras-chaves: Deficiência auditiva, ambiente educacional e fonética.  Abstract: This article is based on the personal report of a student of Pedagogy, with bilateral hearing loss, emphasizing the challenges and overcoming of people with disabilities in the educational environment. Furthermore, this text addresses the main characteristics of hearing loss and its difficulties in Traditional Education. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in 2020, around 10 million people had hearing loss, representing 5% of the Brazilian population. Furthermore, it is possible to observe that there are biological causes that determine different levels of hearing, which directly impact psychosocial development and social interaction. According to a review of an article on hearing loss due to genetic alterations or mutations in mitochondrial DNA, it was possible to observe that the vast majority of people with hearing loss have this condition due to genetic causes. In this context, the trajectory of a Pedagogy student will be told, from Elementary School to Higher Education. It will highlight how theater completely changed his life and it will be shown how this thought was built despite the difficulties of hearing. In this context, the person with hearing impairment needs to show the main barriers that hinder their social interaction, promoting inclusion, identifying children with hearing impairment and providing pedagogical strategies and empowering their identity. Furthermore, my experience as a person with a hearing impairment will be essential to being a future hearing impaired educator. Despite the limitations, it is possible to learn and educate. It is worth highlighting the importance of the person with hearing impairment in teacher training, motivating other people with disabilities as well as people who do not have any disability.Keywords: Hearing impairment, educational and phonetic environment.

scholarly journals Prevalence and etiological factor of hearing impairment among school going children in rural area of district, Dehradun

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 680
Author(s):  
Saurabh Saini ◽  
S. S. Bist ◽  
Lovneesh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
Pure Tone Audiometry ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Etiological Factor ◽  
Mild Degree ◽  
Significant Public Health

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Childhood hearing impairment is a significant public health condition associated with long-term academic and communicative difficulties. Causes can be congenital or acquired. Nearly half of the known causes can be prevented by primary public health methods. Present study was conducted to determine the prevalence and etiological factor related to hearing impairment among school going children in rural area district Dehradun.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> 1003 children, aged 6 to 17 years, from the schools in the Doiwala block district Dehradun were randomly selected and examined. Clinical otologic assessment and Pure tone audiometry screening were conducted on all participants.  </p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> The prevalence of hearing impairment was 19.6%. The hearing impairment in majority of cases was of a mild degree i.e., 26 to 40 dB (93.9%) of which majority of children (99.0%) had conductive loss. Wax was the commonest cause of hearing loss (79.2%). CSOM was found in 19.0% children.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> The prevalence of hearing impairment in school going children in rural area district Dehradun was high. Majority of the etiological factor of hearing impairment identified were preventable. Proper assessment and diagnosis of hearing loss in children at early age is important for better development and psychosocial development.</p>

Feasibility of smartphone-based hearing-aid apps for patients with mild hearing loss: an exploratory pilot study (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willy Nguyen ◽  
Miseung Koo ◽  
Seung Ha Oh ◽  
Jun Ho Lee ◽  
Moo Kyun Park
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Clinical Performance ◽  
Hearing Aid ◽  
National Standards ◽  
Hearing In Noise ◽  
Mild Hearing Loss ◽  
Consumer Devices ◽  
Selection Of

BACKGROUND Underuse of hearing aids is caused by several factors, including the stigma associated with hearing disability, affordability, and lack of awareness of rising hearing impairment associated with the growing population. Thus, there is a significant opportunity for the development of direct-to-consumer devices. For the past few years, smartphone-based hearing-aid apps have become more numerous and diverse, but few studies have investigated them. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to elucidate the electroacoustic characteristics and potential user benefits of a selection of currently available hearing-aid apps. METHODS We investigated the apps based on hearing-aid control standards (American National Standards Institute) using measurement procedures from previous studies. We categorized the apps and excluded those we considered inefficient. We investigated a selection of user-friendly, low-end apps, EarMachine and Sound Amplifier, with warble-tone audiometry, word recognition testing in unaided and aided conditions, and hearing-in-noise test in quiet and noise-front conditions in a group of users with mild hearing impairment (n = 7) as a pilot for a future long-term investigation. Results from the apps were compared with those of a conventional hearing aid. RESULTS Five of 14 apps were considered unusable based on low scores in several metrics, while the others varied across the range of electroacoustic measurements. The apps that we considered “high end” that provided lower processing latencies and audiogram-based fitting algorithms were superior overall. The clinical performance of the listeners tended to be better when using hearing aid, while the low end hearing-aid apps had limited benefits on the users. CONCLUSIONS Some apps showed the potential to benefit users with limited cases of minimal or mild hearing loss if the inconvenience of relatively poor electroacoustic performance did not outweigh the benefits of amplification.

The Effect of Conventional and Transparent Surgical Masks on Speech Understanding in Individuals with and without Hearing Loss

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (01) ◽  
pp. 058-067 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel R. Atcherson ◽  
Lisa Lucks Mendel ◽  
Wesley J. Baltimore ◽  
Chhayakanta Patro ◽  
Sungmin Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Speech Perception ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Visual Input ◽  
Acoustic Properties ◽  
Speech Understanding ◽  
Profound Hearing Loss ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Surgical Masks ◽  
Significant Difference

AbstractIt is generally well known that speech perception is often improved with integrated audiovisual input whether in quiet or in noise. In many health-care environments, however, conventional surgical masks block visual access to the mouth and obscure other potential facial cues. In addition, these environments can be noisy. Although these masks may not alter the acoustic properties, the presence of noise in addition to the lack of visual input can have a deleterious effect on speech understanding. A transparent (“see-through”) surgical mask may help to overcome this issue.To compare the effect of noise and various visual input conditions on speech understanding for listeners with normal hearing (NH) and hearing impairment using different surgical masks.Participants were assigned to one of three groups based on hearing sensitivity in this quasi-experimental, cross-sectional study.A total of 31 adults participated in this study: one talker, ten listeners with NH, ten listeners with moderate sensorineural hearing loss, and ten listeners with severe-to-profound hearing loss.Selected lists from the Connected Speech Test were digitally recorded with and without surgical masks and then presented to the listeners at 65 dB HL in five conditions against a background of four-talker babble (+10 dB SNR): without a mask (auditory only), without a mask (auditory and visual), with a transparent mask (auditory only), with a transparent mask (auditory and visual), and with a paper mask (auditory only).A significant difference was found in the spectral analyses of the speech stimuli with and without the masks; however, no more than ∼2 dB root mean square. Listeners with NH performed consistently well across all conditions. Both groups of listeners with hearing impairment benefitted from visual input from the transparent mask. The magnitude of improvement in speech perception in noise was greatest for the severe-to-profound group.Findings confirm improved speech perception performance in noise for listeners with hearing impairment when visual input is provided using a transparent surgical mask. Most importantly, the use of the transparent mask did not negatively affect speech perception performance in noise.

scholarly journals MTHFR 677T Is a Strong Determinant of the Degree of Hearing Loss Among Polish Males with Postlingual Sensorineural Hearing Impairment

2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 1267-1273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Pollak ◽  
Malgorzata Mueller-Malesinska ◽  
Urszula Lechowicz ◽  
Agata Skorka ◽  
Lech Korniszewski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing ◽  
Sensorineural Hearing Impairment

A study on the proportion of hearing impairment among percussionists in Thrissur district of Kerala

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 816
Author(s):  
Jubina Bency A. T. ◽  
Sarangi . ◽  
Sebastian Roy ◽  
Shalu Sara Mathew ◽  
Shamseena A. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Hearing Impairment ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Moderate Degree ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Hearing Ability ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Mild Degree

Background: Hearing loss is a cause of global concern. Percussionists are exposed to greater levels of continuous or intermittent noise than others. Little is known about the relationship between percussion activity and hearing impairment. The early detection of the same and subsequent management makes a significant reduction in the burden of health care services. The objective was to study the proportion of hearing impairment in percussionists in the district of Thrissur using an IOS based mobile application.Methods: A cross sectional study was done on percussionists from Thrissur district who has experience of more than five years and has no congenital or traumatic hearing loss. A predesigned semi structured questionnaire was given and hearing tests were done using a mobile application U hear in a sound proof setting to understand the current state of hearing ability amoung the percussionists.Results: A total of 39 subjects were involved in our study of which all were males. Mean age of our study population was 30.44+12.04. most of them were diagnosed with at least mild degree of hearing loss of one of the ear or both the ears. 15.4% of them had mild degree of hearing loss, 64.1% had moderate degree of hearing loss and 20.5% had severe hearing loss.Conclusions: The study shows percussionists are more exposed to sounds of various frequencies for longer duration, they are more prone to hearing loss. The study brought out that age is directly proportional to hearing loss, music induced hearing loss progress at a rate proportion to the work experience. 

Criteria and Indicators of the Level of Formation in Intellectually Gifted Adolescents of the Culture of Social Interaction

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
V. Emel'yanenko
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
Criteria And Indicators ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intellectually Gifted ◽  
Mental Abilities ◽  
Gifted Adolescents

Currently, one of the urgent problems of the education system is the search for effective methods of pedagogical support for the social development of intellectually gifted children and adolescents. The article contains the results of theoretical analysis and empirical research aimed at identifying the characteristics and level of formation of the culture of social interaction in intellectually gifted adolescents, considered as the main result of their social education in the educational environment of the school. The author reveals the essence of the culture of social interaction as a pedagogical phenomenon, develops diagnostic tools for its study and determines the level of its formation in 196 adolescents with outstanding mental abilities studying in grades 7-9 of secondary schools.

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