Relevance After the cochlear implantation 70 per cent of children looses their balance. Number of various kinezitherapheutic exercises are used for developing the balance: exercises on soft, moving surfaces reducing body support area; the ones with „Gymnic�� balls. Music therapy has a modern history, applying it for children with hearing and balance or complex disorder in healing. But classical researches were not made on the issue of what benefit music therapy has on children after cochlear implantation surgery. Dances, games are important for social, emotional, intellectual process of children; it is a natural process optimization mean for preschool children, activity, in context of which, corrective tasks are solved. The object of our research was balance of children, for which cochlear implantation was made. The aim of the research – to deduce an effect of kinezitherapy means to children, to which cochlear implantation was made. Goals: 1. To assess and compare a balance of experimental and control children groups after the cochlear implantation. 2. To assess and compare a balance of experimental and control children groups nine months after the cochlear implantation was made. 3. To evaluate the effect of used kinezetherapy means to children balance. The organization of the research. 32 children whom the cochlear implantation was made took place in the research. They were divided into 2 groups: experimental (n=17) and control (n=15). The research lasted for 9 months. The... [to full text]

Analizuojant kochlearinio implanto reikšmę žymiai neprigirdinčių ir kurčių vaikų santykių su aplinka pokyčiams, nors kochlearinė implantacija yra labai efektyvus klausos protezavimo metodas, integruojant ir reabilituojant žymiai neprigirdinčius ir kurčius vaikus visuomenėje, tačiau tai palyginti nauja sritis ir mes neaptikom kitų mokslinių tyrimų, nagrinėjančių šią temą Lietuvoje. Klausa žmogui yra vienas iš pagrindinių komunikacijos būdų tarp aplinkinių ir pasaulio, kuriame jis gyvena. Statistikos duomenimis, per metus maždaug 35 vaikams nustatomas įgimtas kurtumas. Vienas iš būdų padėti klausos negalią turintiems asmenims reabilituotis ir integruotis į visuomenę - tai kochlearinės implantacijos. Pirmoji kochlearinė implantacija ne tik Lietuvoje, bet ir Baltijos šalyse atlikta 1999 metais. Šiuo metu Lietuvoje yra operuoti, 75 vaikai. Mūsų darbo naujumą sudaro tai, kad šis darbas vienas pirmųjų tokio pobūdžio darbų Lietuvoje. Darbo tikslas – išanalizuoti kochlearinio implanto reikšmę žymiai neprigirdinčių ir kurčių vaikų santykių su aplinka pokyčiams. Tyrimo tikslui įgyvendinti sprendžiami šie pagrindiniai uždaviniai: 1. Išsiaiškinti ar tiriami vaikai naudojosi individualiais klausos aparatais iki implantacijos. 2. Išanalizuoti ugdymo įstaigos pasirinkimą priklausomai nuo to, kada buvo atlikta implantacija, iki šešerių metų ir jau sulaukus šešerių metų amžiaus. 3. Ištirti vaikų santykių su aplinkiniais ir bendraamžiais pokyčius iki ir po kochlearinės... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Though the Cochlear implantation is an extremely effective prosthetic appliance for the treatment of hard of hearing people, the analysis of the impact of Cochlear implant to the changes of considerably hard of hearing and deaf children relationship with environment required lots of efforts, because this kind of children integration to society is rather new in Lithuania and there is a lack of investigations. Hearing is among the main people communication means which they use for acquiring the world they live in. According to statistics, approximately 35 children are born per annum with the diagnosis of deafness. Thus, Cochlear implantation is one of the ways to help people with hearing disability to rehabilitate and integrate into society. In 1999 the first Cochlear implantation has been performed not only in Lithuania but also in Baltic states. Up till now 75 children have been operated. The novelty of our work is composed since it is one of the first works of this kind in Lithuania. The objective of this paper is to analyze the significance of Cochlear implant to the changes of considerably hard of hearing and deaf children relationship with environment. For the implementation of the objective, the paper has been solving the following exercises: 1. To discover whether the inquiring children have been using their individual hearing-aids till implantation. 2. To analyze the choice of educational institution without reference to the time the implantation has been... [to full text]