Submitted by Jailda Nascimento (jmnascimento@pucsp.br) on 2016-09-22T18:53:47Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcella Ferrari Martins.pdf: 2274777 bytes, checksum: ffb7363fd5e6f074935a2d873f556cd3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-09-22T18:53:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcella Ferrari Martins.pdf: 2274777 bytes, checksum: ffb7363fd5e6f074935a2d873f556cd3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Objective: To analyze and discuss comparatively the perception of parents and audiologists - therapists and programmers, for the hearing and language skills in children with cochlear implants, satisfaction with perceived this development and the factors responsible for it. Method: The subjects of this research 50 children under fifteen years of age, cochlear implant users, who underwent surgery at least six months of the first ear. With this, their parents and audiologists were also subject of this research. Results: Ace language categories compared to parents and respondents and non-respondents therapists there was a statistically significant association (p = 0.143). In both groups the majority of children are category 5 language, but in children of non-respondents parents observed a higher number of children in categories 1, 2 and 3. Since the hearing categories, there was also no statistically significant association (p = 0.099) between parents and respondents and non-respondents therapists, however there is a greater number of children in the categories 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the non-respondents parents. The vast majority of study participants demonstrated satisfied with the performance of children. Conclusion: The results seem to indicate that the clinical markers - language categories and hearing has the potential to strengthen the partnership between parents and audiologists (therapists and developers) and we can highlight the common factors of parents and speech therapists related to meeting the communicative performance, audibility / IC, academic performance and involvement of the parties involved / Objetivo: Analisar e discutir comparativamente a percepção de pais e fonoaudiólogos – terapeutas e programadores, quanto às habilidades auditivas e de linguagem em crianças usuárias de implante coclear, a satisfação com esse desenvolvimento percebido e os fatores responsáveis por isso. Método: Foram sujeitos dessa pesquisa 50 crianças até quinze anos de idade, usuárias de Implante coclear, que realizaram a cirurgia a no mínimo seis meses do primeiro ouvido. Com isso, seus respectivos pais e fonoaudiólogos também foram sujeitos desta pesquisa. Resultados: Ás categorias de linguagem comparadas aos pais e terapeutas respondentes e não respondentes não houve uma associação estatisticamente significativa (p=0,143). Nos dois grupos a maior parte das crianças apresentam categoria 5 de linguagem, porém nas crianças dos pais não respondentes observa-se um maior número de crianças nas categorias 1,2 e 3. Já nas categorias de audição, também não houve uma associação estatisticamente significativa (p=0,099) entre pais e terapeutas respondentes e não respondentes, porém observa-se um maior número de crianças nas categorias 1,2, 3 e 4 dos pais não respondentes. A grande maioria dos participantes do estudo demostraram satisfeitos com o desempenho das crianças. Conclusão: Os resultados parecem apontar que os marcadores clínicos - categorias de linguagem e audição tem potencial para fortalecer a parceria entre pais e fonoaudiólogos (terapeutas e programadores) e podemos destacar que os fatores em comum de pais e fonoaudiólogos relacionados à satisfação o desempenho comunicativo, audibilidade/ IC, desempenho escolar e envolvimento das partes envolvidas

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