Rogerio Bittencourt⁽¹⁾, Marco Antonio Pinheiro^(2)
(1)(2)Universidade do Vale do Itajai - Sao Jose. Brazil

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4. Auditory Training

According to ⁽⁹⁾, it is the stimulation in the auditory perceptual process and that is gradually processed in steps.

4.1 Auditory Training Importance in Deaf Children

For ⁽⁹⁾, a very important receptive means through which the child will get to use its auditory residues. Considering these auditory residues, the child must be given condition to learn to listen and define the sounds, improving the language development and acquisition.

Hearing is the sense through which verbal language is obtained, i.e., the voice is detected. The sounding source can be found in all the senses by the auditory via integrity which is considered an important step to the auditory function development. If the deaf does not go through the auditory training, the auditory function will develop but not the auditory memory, sound recognition and understanding, i.e., the auditory perception (skill to organize, recognize and understand sounding stimulus) will not be adequate.

4.2 Requirements for Hearing Development in the Auditory Training

Audio-metric exam at hand;

From audible to less audible sounds;

Sounds must be intense (at first);

Sounds must be frequent;

Interesting;

Favorable moment;

Place;

Ambient, instrumental and verbal noises must be used;

Age.

4.3 Steps to Perform the Auditory Training

According to ⁽⁹⁾, the auditory perception, which is very important for the individual development, must be stimulated. It is performed by:

Sound presence with visual help: the child must concern about the hearing sense.

Sound absence: the child must know how to distinguish when there is sound and when there is silence without any visual help.

Sounding source localization/auditory localization: the skill to define where the sound is coming from.

Auditory identification: the skill to relate a certain sound with its source.

Auditory discrimination: the skill to tell one sound from another and to distinguish their differences and resemblances.

Auditory memory: the skill to retain, reproduce and recognize auditory stimulus previously presented.

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[ABSTRACT] [1. Introduction] [2. Multimedia, Hypermedia and Hypertext Concept] [4. Auditory Training] [3. A Project Methodology for Hypermedia application - OOHDM] [5. System Description] [6. Conclusion] [Annexes] [BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES] [Discussion Board]

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