[Results of 10 years of deafness screening and diagnosis in children and its implications. Early education of the young deaf child].
In ten years, we have tested more than 1 200 children of 0 to 4 years in this way: at birth, within the maternity hospital, and then at 2, 6 and 9 months-old, doubtful cases with the Veit-Bizaguet audiometer and also Mrs Borel-Maisonny's sound toys: we have thus obtained the child's hearing test. Later on, according to age, we use R.O.C.--Peep-Show, tonal audiometry, and vocal audiometry with pictures. We also resort to objective means: systematically, tympanometry and Stape Reflex, and in difficult, doubtful cases, psychomotor retardation and autistic behaviour, we make B.E.R.A. We also search for hereditary, iatrogen and meningitic deafness. Such screening methods, at an early stage, to trace down severe and profound deafness enabled a demutization and early education of deaf children who will be equipped with stereophonic hearing aids; we use only an oral method with some cued speech. The children will thus be given a good school and social integration within the world of normal people. Then the children are in possession of a more structural language, of a voice of better quality and can develop all their abilities.
D000367:Age Factors; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003638:Deafness / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000517:prevention & control; D004493:Education; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000458:organization & administration; D011596:Psychomotor Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D011597:Psychomotor Performance
Bilan de dix années de dépistage et diagnostic de la surdité de l'enfant et sa conséquence. L'éducation précoce du jeune enfant sourd.