Forms and procedures for implementation of the education of hearing disabled children and pupils

TITLE: Forms and procedures for implementation of the education of hearing disabled children and pupils AUTHOR: Lenka Soukupová, DiS. DEPARTMENT: Special Education SUPERVISOR: PhDr. Eva Mrkosová, CSc. ABSTRACT: My graduation work is focused on hearing disabled children. I describe the methods we can use for education of these children. In the theoretical part I describe the organ of hearing, degrees of hearing failures and defects, some explorations, which can be used for hearing disabled people, some compensation instruments for them like various types of hearing aid, cochlear implantation… Then I describe speech upbringing of hearing disabled children, the way of communication between mother with her child and the communicative technics which are used by hearing disabled people. In the practical part I describe how teachers work with these children, which methods and forms of education they use it and what are children's reactions. KEYWORDS: - hearing disabled children, compensation instruments - hearing aid, cochlear implantation, speech upbringing, communicative technic