The use of software development and communication of students with severe hearing loss or deafness, seeks to promote the development of the basic psychological processes: attention, perception, memory and motivation. These computer systems, can help improve the use and acquisition of oral and written language by the deaf person.
In the broad spectrum of resources we have in the XXI century, computer media offer many opportunities, with many specific applications for the rehabilitation of specific disorders of language and education of hearing impairment. Most of these software development serving the capabilities of students with hearing impaired or deaf, referring to enhance semantic aspects, use of spelling rules, improved articulation through phonetic displays, etc.
specialist working with students with hearing impairments, you must know what equipment and what software can serve you in each particular case.
resources for development and enhancement of speech and voice.
These tools provide immediate visual feedback of the sound stimuli emitted by the specialist and / or person hearing impaired: Speech Viewer III, Visha System, Visi-Pitch, Dr. Speech, among others. Speech Viewer III
Created by IBM, is a speech training system. Used with standard sound card (Sound Blaster) and under Windows. It is a program designed to correct phonetics and control of phonation. Allows treatment of the attributes of speech. Biofeedback is based on the immediate receiving oral individual productions, showing the characteristics of his speech: pitch, intensity, duration, and phoneme isolation. Work includes thirteen modules grouped into these sections:
-Module Knowledge:
contains exercises designed to improve the perception of voice to facilitate self-control. Working knowledge of sound, the sound knowledge, knowledge intensity and knowledge of sound and tone. In this way the child understands the concept of sound / no sound, duration of the issue of voice, intensity, etc. In addition to practicing the regulation and control of their own voice.
-Module development of techniques
contains several games designed to practice and automate the control of phonation.
-module vocal techniques:
work includes several games for the accuracy, contrast and vowel modeling.
-module structure:
acts as a phonetics laboratory to analyze some aspects of speech such as loudness, intensity, tone and intonation.
The program is quite motivating and animations depicting oral production. It is useful for working with hearing impaired notions of sound, intensity, pitch, duration, self-control of phonation, and the proper coordination of the various phonemes.
System VISHA
It consists of a card digital processing of the signal connected to a compatible PC and a series of programs, all of them created and developed by the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Technology Laboratory in Rehabilitation work continues on developing a series of software applications for the treatment of certain diseases of the voice. These are some of the applications developed:
1.Wisotón.
The program can work with patterns of 3 types: intensity, fundamental pitch and loudness. The examiner recorded a series of patterns which can be supplemented with phrases to help students in training, text files describing what is its purpose and even sound file itself. With these patterns the teacher set work sessions tailored to individual students based on the training aspects. The program records all the results so that the teacher can analyze them later. At all times, both patterns may change as the session, as the student's own parameters (fundamental frequency, etc.)..
2.PcVox, WPcVox (Windows Update).
Programs that allow the study of the voice signal.
3.PcAud (conducting hearing tests).
allows the following types of audiometry, audiometric automatic audiometric entertainment, distinctive rank test (speech audiometry), curve intelligibility (speech audiometry). All tests can be performed both by air and bone conduction.
4.Predice (word completion)
is a word completion system while it is of particular use for the handicapped can be used in education of deaf people. Includes a direct link to Text Converter Vox. Allows customization of the working environment: colors, fonts, and print work.
5.SAS (positioning of the articulators).
From the voice, representing the position adopted by the articulatory organs. Allows training by established patterns.
Educational Software for the acquisition and development of oral and written language skills. MUSA Project
is a global work environment for the rehabilitation of persons with hearing and speech. This project is integrated into the TIDE program of the EEC and consists of the evaluation, adaptation and application of PHONOS program for the rehabilitation of speech and language development. DI
Learning Program and speechreading training. Published and distributed by the MEC-PNTIC (Program for New Technologies of Information and Communication). Is a program for speech therapy intervention in the training of lipreading. Is aimed at students with hearing impairment that needs to be started in this skill.
programs that develop written language
includes software written specifically for patients with special educational needs, hearing impaired, and programs to people in the process of learning reading-writing (Elementary education students). We should note that while facilitating literacy learning developed writer attention, memory, conceptual semantics, syntax, etc. Gram
writing practices program created specifically for the hearing impaired, designed to work the use of verb forms from a series of texts submitted.
LAO Project (Computer-Aided Speech Therapy) consists of three macro-
: Language Environments (EL), syllable and phonological segmentation (SIFO) and INTELEX, and several applications built from them, such as: home Family, HALE, BLA, BLA, BLA, Pili and Chema, Mi Barrio, fruit, etc. The project has been developed LAO por MEC (Ministerio de Educación y Cultura), Fundación ONCE y Fundación APANDA (Asociación de Padres de Niños con Deficiencias Auditivas).
CLIC
Programa distribuido por el PIE (Programa de Informática Educativa de la Generalitat de Cataluña), MEC-PNTIC y otras Comunidades Autónomas. Es un entorno multimedia para crear y realizar actividades educativas tanto para las distintas etapas y ciclos de la educación obligatoria como para ACNEE (alumnos con necesidades educativas especiales, dentro de este grupo están los alumnos con deficiencias auditivas). Permite trabajar diferentes áreas curriculares: comunicación y representación (Ed. Infantil), lenguas, mathematics and music education (Primary and Secondary Education Ed.) There are four types of activities: puzzles, associations, word searches and crosswords. Currently there are many applications created by other professionals in education, which are available from the server on the Internet PIE.
EXLER
is a program that allows working in the segment of the word language skills of comprehension and oral and written expression. Created by the School of Pathology Llenguatge Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona. Distributed by: Hospital de Sant Pau (full version) and Departament d'Ensenyament of the Generalitat of Catalonia (Version 2.01) in the CD-ROM Sinera.Actualmente we have in the network of the Autonomous Communities, more updated versions.
English is easy
Published and distributed by the MEC-PNTIC, is an interesting program to work English. Was created especially for pupils from the North of Africa and schooled in our area. However, it can also be an aid in teaching the English language to immigrant students is not because their goals are: to provide students with greater communication skills, develop understanding / speaking and writing, as well as expand vocabulary.
Pequeabecedario
Program published by the Communication Without Barriers Foundation, to facilitate learning literate.
magic letters
ATE.net program developed for elementary students who are in the process of learning to read. Although not created specifically for the hearing impaired, can be used with them under the supervision of the specialist to get a better use.
Play with words
Powered by Zeta Multimedia, is a program that facilitates phonological conceptualization, construction written words, all in an entertaining format motivating.
Programs created and produced by Soft Aquari
literate Allowing work skills: Hamlet, Symphonic Crosswords, Crosswords syllabic, Tools for reading and writing, Pencil-3. ADI
is a multimedia environment with educational applications for second and third cycle of primary education and to secondary school, English language, mathematics and English. There are also papers on topics of general, multimedia authoring tools and games.
Programs distributed by MEC-PNTIC and the various administrations regional educational.
1.WIN-ABC,
is a program used for the acquisition of basic instrumental skills: literacy and numeracy.
2.PAAL.
learning support program of reading.
3. ACCI-LEC-CON
Stocks-Reading Comprehension-The concordances.
4. SILBA taught me to read,
is a multimedia program to work on some aspects of language.
Programs that combine speech and / or writing and sign language
1.Primer Computer Dictionary of the English Sign Language.
2.Gestos.
Program for learning sign language. Distributed by the Institute of Education Sciences at the University of Barcelona. The program is to ensure a basic level of sign language. The main menu options: BEGINNING (which is the LSE and management of the program), Alphabet (sign language), AGENDA (vocabulary and expressions of 6 subjects), Dictionary (365 words) and SET (which includes the experimental module with three job options). Although its main purpose is to encourage independent learning in the LSE in normal hearing, it is interesting to use with hearing-impaired.
DITS
Allows writing messages, using sign language. Exercises can prepare translation between sign language and oral language. DICTIONARY INTELEX
LAO
to Project. It is a program that provides textual and graphical information over 12,000 terms in Castilian. Shows the meaning of the word while offering the grammatical category to which it belongs, gender, verb conjugation, in the event that the word is a verb, and the sign for the English Sign Language in words and expressions that have a direct translation (6611). Search for synonyms, antonyms and semantic family. SIGNE
bimodal Editor allows you to create texts in oral and sign language. HEARING AIDS FOR CHILDREN
The ideal type of hearing aid for children should always be BTE.
Although hearing loss permits, the adaptation of a CIC, it is not advisable until the child has a reasonable age and reach a greater degree of maturity, in addition to a number of other technical reasons such as these do not have system audio for connection to FM stations that are very important in educational settings.
Hearing aids for children should have the following characteristics:
• Maximum flexibility • broad frequency spectrum
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sound compression system • Maximum Output Limiter
• Audio • inductive coil
with digital hearing aids now have substantial benefits in the prosthetic correction of children. Get done with them audible sounds very weak, in turn avoiding the loud aggression and eliminating the annoying beeps. All with the best sound quality.
COCHLEAR IMPLANT:
If the stimulation from a headset is not sufficient to acquire language, technique offers a possibility but until recently there was no means of other special prosthesis, which differs from others in that is implanted surgically. This is the cochlear implant, which is a device designed to play the role of the cochlea implanted electrodes in this and a few external components (microphone, processor and transmitter) whose function is to collect, process and transmit sound to the electrodes.
Cochlear implants, therefore, are designed to help people with profound deafness who do not get benefit with hearing aids.
Early detection of hearing problems is very important to improve the prospects for integration of children into society. Are also important tools for assessing the child's hearing problem and it is essential coordination and joint efforts of all professionals to determine before 2 years of life if a child will benefit from hearing aids or else will be running a cochlear implant. Get
make this work for detection and early action in a coordinated manner with the help of new technologies, it will help in the not too distant future almost all children born with problems hearing to acquire spoken language.
no doubt that the aid of information technology with the conventional, we will provide "access" not only to develop their skills in elementary and primary education, but also access to network within inclusive school, which seeks to promote English Schools with new pedagogical tendencies century. Professional, along with the family and the different hearing impaired, should assume "roles", set out to develop their potential, not harder "limitations" but opening a huge meandering river hat is the lives of deaf children.
What do we do when students passed Compulsory Secondary Education?.
In Secondary Education, provide the "channels" for professionals in contact with students with hearing impairments, access to all computer programs and progress we have discussed. Since the continued use of these educational programs, along with the maturity that we provide the psychological development of students, may be the lever for increasing the number of deaf students, who accesses the University.
The number of profoundly deaf people who start college is disproportionately low, lower even getting a college degree. This suggests that the English education system is not functioning properly for the hearing impaired. One of the main reasons for this failure of English society as a whole because the vast majority of deaf children do not become properly in the first years of his life a first language to help them reach their full potential cognitive, affective and social and which can be expressed with sufficient skill. Task that must be followed in compulsory secondary education, with the necessary information technology and conventional.
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*http://www.murciaeduca.es/cpbeethoven/sitio/index.cgi?wid_seccion=16
*http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/45778/PROYECTO-ABC-SECUNDARIA
*http://www.vocesenelsilencio.org.ar/notas/JornadaRed.pdf
