The presented diploma thesis deals with the means of communication (sign language, signed language, written language, finger alphabet, etc.) used by teachers in schools for pupils with hearing impairment in Prague and Munich. The work is interested in the topic of related educational approaches, which schools, or teachers use, and what means of communication they prefer. Using observation methods and questionnaires, it wants to find out what or who leads the educators to the chosen communication means and what they think about their own communication competencies. In addition, it compares the current situation of this issue at the elementary schools for the hearing impaired in Prague and Bavarian Munich. The first chapter focuses on which kind of pupils are attending schools for the hearing impaired and what are the possibilities for communication. The second chapter deals with approaches to the education of pupils with hearing impairment. In addition to basic approaches (oral, total, bilingual) describes the approach by American linguist D. A. Stewart, which was developed for the needs of the classroom. Before comparing the results of the research, there are two chapters dealing briefly with descriptions and history (particularly from the point of view of communication) of the researched schools....

Submitted by Nadir Basilio (nadirsb@uninove.br) on 2018-04-13T18:00:01Z No. of bitstreams: 1 David Costa Monteiro.pdf: 2947151 bytes, checksum: 2fa8ac9f19e8e0fa52699b42e5e4ca34 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-13T18:00:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 David Costa Monteiro.pdf: 2947151 bytes, checksum: 2fa8ac9f19e8e0fa52699b42e5e4ca34 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-28 / The sustainability of cities depends on the logistics aspect related to the transportation of people residing in peripheral regions of large municipalities and who need attention regarding access to goods and services, whether public or private. In the particular case of the elderly residents far from the center of the city of São Paulo they go through the difficulty of aging itself, the question of recklessness in the face of low security in the most central area of the city, lack of public transportation options, distances extended by human growth and inaccessibility to public and private services. We investigated the issue of the elderly with hearing problems who need care to acquire hearing aids and the maintenance of such equipment. The general objective is to present the elements, based on the three pillars of sustainability (Triple Bottom Line), which can contribute to the improvement of the provision of goods and services to elderly people who use hearing aids and live in peripheral regions of the city of São Paulo. Methodologically, the research was based on a mixed approach: qualitative and quantitative, and also based on bibliographic review, documentary analysis and statistical analysis from a field survey and structured questionnaire application. From the economic point of view, the company under study provided new possibilities and new real gains with the new sales strategy adopted, which is consistent with door to door sales and through agreements with commercial partners located in the neighborhoods where their clientele reside. Socially, there was a great deficit of urban rigging and public investments in the direction of adequately adapting to the local needs of the population: the access to health to be improved, ergonomically lacking works, optimization of the elements essential to urban mobility (in face of the neighborhoods of Capão Redondo and Grajaú) such as public transport and others. From the environmental point of view, the company under study innovated by being able to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide initially promoted in its regionally directed sales. The contributions to the presented practice showed that new strategies of approaching the company with the clientele can supply the demand of a sustainable way for the lesser part of the city. As contributions to the theory the research was shown to be relevant when presenting that the tripod of sustainability can be applied by companies in diverse segments, as exposed, the branch of hearing aids in peripheral regions of the city of São Paulo. It is also concluded that if the entrepreneurs intelligently apply their resources, beneficially will influence the quality of life of their clientele, even more positively enhancing their business as a whole. / A sustentabilidade das cidades passa pelo aspecto da logística relativo ao transporte de pessoas residentes em regiões periféricas dos grandes municípios e que carecem de atenção quanto ao acesso aos bens e serviços, sejam estes de caráter público ou de caráter privado. No caso particular dos idosos residentes distante do centro da cidade de São Paulo, é possível observar que passam pela dificuldade oriunda do próprio envelhecimento, a questão da temeridade em face da baixa segurança na área mais central da cidade, falta de opções de transporte público, distâncias alongadas pelo crescimento humano e inacessibilidade a serviços públicos e privados. Investigou-se a questão do idoso portador de problemas auditivos que carece de atendimento para adquirir aparelhos auditivos e a manutenção desses equipamentos. Por objetivo geral têm-se apresentar os elementos com base nos três pilares da sustentabilidade (Triple Bottom Line), que podem contribuir na melhoria da prestação de bens e serviços a idosos que utilizam aparelhos auditivos e residem em regiões periféricas da cidade de São Paulo. Metodologicamente optou-se pela investigação de abordagem mista: qualitativa e quantitativa e, ainda, baseada nas técnicas de revisão bibliográfica, análise documental e análise estatística a partir de levantamento em campo e aplicação de questionário estruturado. Por resultados, pôde-se encontrar que, do ponto de vista econômico, a empresa sob estudo proporcionou novas possibilidades e novos ganhos reais com a nova estratégia de vendas adotadas, esta consistente nas vendas door to door e por intermédio de acordos com parceiros comerciais localizados nos distritos em que sua clientela reside. Socialmente, apurou-se grande déficit de aparelhamento urbano e investimentos públicos na direção de se bem adequar às necessidades populacionais locais: é o caso do acesso à saúde a ser melhorado, calçamento ergonomicamente carente de obras, otimização dos elementos essenciais à mobilidade urbana (em face dos bairros do Capão Redondo e Grajaú), como o transporte público e outros. Do ponto de vista ambiental, a empresa estudada inovou ao conseguir diminuir o montante de gás carbônico inicialmente promovido em suas vendas regionalmente direcionadas. As contribuições para a prática apresentadas mostraram que novas estratégias de aproximação da empresa com a clientela podem suprir a demanda de uma forma sustentável para a parte menos abastada da cidade. Como contribuições para a teoria a pesquisa se mostrou relevante ao apresentar que o tripé da sustentabilidade pode ser aplicado por empresas em seguimentos diversos, como exposto, o ramo de aparelhos auditivos em regiões periféricas da cidade de São Paulo. Conclui-se, igualmente, que se o empresariado aplicar de modo inteligente seus recursos, beneficamente influenciará na qualidade de vida de sua clientela, potencializando, inclusive, de modo mais positivo, seus negócios como um todo.

The aim of the master's thesis is in-depth exploration of possibilities of using the Video Home Training method within a family setting and with motivation to support the development of communication between the child with hearing impairment and his hearing parent. The first part of the thesis creates a background for this research, psychological aspects of the care for a deaf child are being described, along with the demands for mutual conversation, which is more difficult and also absolutely crucial for future healthy development of the child. Foreign researches suggest that the VHT method for children with a hearing impairment and their parents can very effectively strengthen the development of communication, to which a research project follows up. Its goal is to apply VHT method within the described type of family. For the research, a case study design was used, and by using a VHT, a semi-structured interviews and self reporting scales, possibilities and limits of VHT method used in the family were evaluated. This evaluation proved to be very positive and at the same time it is in a consonance with findings of foreign studies. Submitted case study and its research findings contribute to the broadening of application areas in which VHT method can be used, and at the same time these findings and...

The Education White Paper 6 has set South Africa on the course for implementing a policy of inclusive education and participation in its schools. It is argued that an essential criterion to establish the congruency between the inclusive education and participation policy and its implementation is the academic self-concept (ASC) of learners. The ASC is influenced by context, thereby including all the systems which contribute to context, such as the education, school, class and social systems. As the product of different factors in various systems, the ASC may have significant diagnostic value in a school and class system. For this study, the ASC of learners with hearing impairment (HI), as an example of an impairment to be included in schools, was explored, involving two public school contexts: special and full-service inclusion schools. The research design incorporated a multi- and mixed method design, as quantitative data, to measure, describe and analyse the nature of the ASC of learners with HI, was augmented with qualitative data, to further explore the nature of the relation between the ASC and HI, especially in respect of the dynamics of the ASC. The investigation entailed developing and administering ASC questionnaires to Grade Seven learners with and without HI in special and full-service inclusion schools, observing classroom interactions, conducting interviews with the principals, educators and learners with HI, and collecting background information on the learners with HI. In answer to the main research question, What is the ASC of Grade Seven learners with HI in the contexts of special and full-service inclusion schools?, the data suggested that school context (full-service inclusion or special schools) did not play a primary role in influencing the ASC of learners with HI. The first sub-question related to the role HI plays in the ASC of Grade Seven learners in the two school contexts. The results suggested that HI greatly influenced the first language ASC (LASC) of the learners with HI in the special school and one of the full-service schools. HI did not seem to play a strong role in the mathematics ASC (MASC) of learners with HI, provided that there was adequate and effective support for the learners with HI. The second sub-question addressed the outcome(s) related to the ASC of Grade Seven learners with HI, which could be regarded as indicative of the successful conversion of primary schools to full-service inclusion schools. The results suggested that a general ASC (GASC) and LASC which are moderately lower than the GASC and LASC of the learners with no HI, and a MASC that is similar to the MASC of the learners with no HI, is acceptable. The third sub-question addressed guidelines to improve the conversion of primary schools to full-service inclusion schools. From the data, early identification of HI, appropriate technical and early specialised learning support, and the accessibility and knowledge of educators appeared to contribute the most to the ASC of learners with HI. Understanding some of the functional and accidental limitations of the research places the findings and conclusions in perspective. / Thesis (PhD (Educational Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Educational Psychology / unrestricted

El presente trabajo reflexiona sobre las condiciones que deben cumplirse para que las personas con discapacidad auditiva tengan acceso a contenido audiovisual en las salas de las cadenas de cines de Lima Metropolitana. Se requiere profundizar en el tipo de métodos que podrían ser utilizados para que las personas con discapacidad auditiva puedan disfrutar de una película en las salas convencionales. Este trabajo medita sobre las posibilidades que tienen las películas peruanas con accesibilidad audiovisual de ser comerciales. También, se analizará cómo afecta los principios del diseño universal a los agentes de la industria audiovisual en el cine peruano, a que se le denomina discapacidad y cuáles son las barreras que puede haber por utilizar métodos de accesibilidad audiovisual para personas con discapacidad auditiva en las salas de cine. / This work reflects on the conditions that must be met so that people with hearing disabilities have access to audiovisual content in the cinemas of the cinema chains of Metropolitan Lima. It is necessary to delve into the type of methods that could be used so that people with hearing disabilities can enjoy a movie in conventional theaters. This work meditates on the possibilities that Peruvian films with audiovisual accessibility have of being commercial. It will also analyze how the principles of universal design affect the agents of the audiovisual industry in Peruvian cinema, which is called disability and what are the barriers that may exist due to the use of audiovisual accessibility methods for people with hearing disabilities in the cinemas. / Trabajo de investigación

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This diploma thesis focuses on the current situation in interpreter services for deaf in Carlsbad region in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part of diploma thesis aims to inform the reader about the terminology, language, another communication code and the number of deaf people in the Czech Republic. I present the information I have gathered about the deaf community. The goal of the diploma thesis is to create the business plan for interpretation services for the deaf community for the year 2019. After studying documents from the national organization I describe the current situation in the Carlsbad region with interpreter services for the deaf. The surveys aim is to interview doctors from otorhinolaryngology and foniatry in the Carlsbad region. The interviews focus on the communication needs of people with hearing impairment and the information doctors have about interpretation services in the region. Based on the data from the research I did, I found out the exact number of interpretation services for deaf in the region. Unfortunately from the documents I was not able to find out the exact number of deaf clients in the Carlsbad region. From the interviews I ascertain, that the doctors are not informed about the communication needs of people with hearing impairment. Doctors learn information...

In Europa leiden etwa 120 Millionen aller 18- bis 80-jährigen an einer Hörbehinderung (16% Prävalenz). Die altersassoziierte Innenohrschwerhörigkeit (Age related hearing impairment, ARHI) hat damit Anschluss gefunden an die großen Volkskrankheiten: Ischämische Herzerkrankungen (5,9 %), Demenz (5,8 %), Diabetes mellitus und Cerebralen Erkrankungen (je 5,5 %). Der erste Teil der Arbeit befasst sich mit der Theorie des Hörens und seinen Störungen, der cochleären Durchblutung, den metabolischen Risikofaktoren, der Molekularbiologie und Epigenetik des Innenohres. Obwohl in der Literatur weitgehend Konsens über den Einfluss exogener Faktoren auf ARHI herrscht, wie Diabetes mellitus, Herz-Kreislauferkrankungen (Framingham Studie und CVD), Hypertonie, Rauchen, Body mass index (BMI) und genderspezifische hormonelle Einflüsse, gibt es kaum HNO-ärztliche Studien dazu. Der zweite Teil geht in einer Praxis-Fallstudie an 202 Patienten folgenden Fragen nach: 1. Gibt es zwischen metabolischen Erkrankungen, wie Adipositas, Störungen des Fett- und Glucosestoffwechsels, der Hypertonie und der Zunahme von Innenohrschwerhörigkeiten im Erwachsenenalter klinische Zusammenhänge? 2. Könnte eine erste Ohrsymptomatik Prädikator einer okkulten pathologischen Stoffwechselveränderung sein? 3. Gibt es Möglichkeiten einer Prävention? Im Ergebnis zeigten sich bei Patienten mit ARHI im Verhältnis Männer/Frauen: Störung des Glukosestoffwechsels bei 97 %/84 %, Lipidstoffwechselstörungen bei 76 %/85 %, eine Homocysteinämien bei 70 %/62 %, ein Anstieg des Plasminogen-Aktivator-Inhibitors (PAI) bei 65 %/38 % und eine Harnsäureerhöhung bei 48 %/15 %. Auch bei ersten Ohrsymptomen (Ohrdruck, Tinnitus, einzelne Frequenzsenken) fanden sich in jedem einzelnen Fall metabolische Veränderungen, die entweder allein oder in unterschiedlichen Kombinationen vorlagen. Männern mit metabolisch initiierten KHK-Erkrankung haben als Prädikator häufig eine erektile Dysfunktion. Erste auditorische Symptomen könnten Prädikator okkulter metabolischer Störungen bei Männern und Frauen sein. Anamnestisch unklare Innenohrprobleme sollten daher auf Stoffwechselstörungen untersucht werden, da diese Risikofaktoren darstellen, die leitlinienbasiert zu therapieren sind. Eine Prognose ist in keinem Einzelfall möglich, da die Folgen auf die molekularbiologischen Prozesse im Innenohres individuell nicht erkennbar sind. Doch sahen wir bei einigen Patienten deutliche Verbesserungen der Symptome und einen Hörschwellenanstieg. Andere Patienten zeigten innerhalb des Beobachtungszeitraums keine Änderung der audiogenen Symptomatik. Behandlungen über einen längeren Zeitraum an einer größeren Fallzahl wären daher sinnvoll. Die Ergebnisse könnten als erste sekundärpräventive Behandlung betrachtet werden, die im Einzelfall eine Hörgeräteversorgung entbehrlich machte. Sie stellen einen Beitrag zu Pfisters Empfehlung dar, mit den vorhandenen Erkenntnissen exogener Risikomechanismen, dringend neue therapeutische Präventionsstrategien für die HNO-ärztliche Tätigkeit zu entwickeln, die die neurale und molekulare Basis anstelle der Symptome der Erkrankung fokussieren.

The thesis "Communication Competence of Cochlear Implant Users and Their School Placement" deals with cochlear implants problematic and communication competence of preschool aged children with cochlear implants. The thesis focuses on communication skills and school placement of children with cochlear implants. The thesis is divided into two main parts, theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part deals with the application of cochlear implant and the rehabilitation process before and after intervention. It further focuses on the communication competence and the education of implant users. The empirical part includes ten specific cases of children with cochlear implants. Apply one's mind to their language abilities such as vocabulary, understanding and grammar. The empirical part shows that cochlear implant is beneficial to the language abilities. The large part of the studied children became equal to their intact contemporaries. KEYWORDS cochlear implant, communication competence, preschool age, school placement, education, hearing impairment

The thesis deals with the communication development in deaf children after cochlear implantation, which have at the same time diagnosed autism spectrum disorder. The theoretical part is divided into three chapters. First two chapters deal with specifics of hearing impairment, or rather autism spectrum disorder, and its effects on the overall development of the child with an emphasis on communication ability. There are briefly introduced the classification of hearing impairments and compensation aids related to the topic of the work - hearing aids and cochlear implants. There is also space devoted to the characteristics of particular autism spectrum disorders. The third chapter describes the most common communication systems or aids used by persons with hearing disabilities, more precisely with the autism spectrum disorder, and the possibility of communication of people with a combination of these two disabilities. The practical part of the thesis is devoted to qualitative research, which main objective was to find out how obtaining a cochlear implant may influence the development of communication of a deaf child with autism spectrum disorder. As part of the research, interviews with parents of these children were conducted. These interviews were supplemented by open-ended questionnaires addressed...