ABSTRACT
Purpose:
to characterize the communicative interaction among hearing parents and children or adolescents with hearing loss who use oral communication through the video analysis.
Methods:
this study included parents of nine children and nine adolescents with bilateral sensorineural pre-lingual hearing impairment, from moderate to profound degree, who attend or attended an aural rehabilitation program with emphasis on the development of hearing and oral communication. Among the nine children, four are aided by cochlear implant and five are aided by hearing aid. Regarding the adolescents, six are aided by cochlear implant and three are aided by hearing aids. The procedure used was a checklist composed by 22 behaviors that analyze the interaction on the stimulation of hearing and language. These behaviors were scored from a Likert scale and classified as "rarely", "occasionally" and "frequently". The interaction among the hearing impaired children or adolescents and their parents was recorded for later analysis by three judges with experience in aural rehabilitation.
Results:
there were 18 interactions recorded, in which it was possible to establish a relation of 97.8% among the judges. The occurrence of behavior "frequently" was statistically significant.
Conclusion:
the results showed that parents involved into an aural rehabilitation program that emphasizes the use of communication strategies to improve the development of linguistic and auditory skills, suitably use communicative behaviors during interaction with their children or adolescents in a controlled situation.
Keywords:
Hearing Loss; Parent-Child Relations; Family
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