Abstract

GRECCO, Maísa Kich; ALMEIDA-VERDU, Ana Claudia M.  and  BUFFA, Maria José Monteiro Benjamin. Parental training of teaching verbal behavior for children using cochlear implants: an intervention with mothers. Bol. - Acad. Paul. Psicol. [online]. 2018, vol.38, n.95, pp. 218-229. ISSN 1415-711X.

Hearing impairment may hinder the acquisition of verbal behavior and the cochlear implant is an alternative to hearing rehabilitation. However, the insertion of this device alone is not sufficient to guarantee the verbal behavior acquisition. An immersion is necessary in the verbal community, and interactions with a well-trained listenerin accordance with the conventions of that community. This study aimed to expand the behavioral repertoire on teaching verbal behaviors to mothers of cochlear implanted children through an instructional program and to verify its effect on echo, touch, command and intraverbal verbal operants of children, considering the quality of the oral production. Two cochlear implanted children, five and seven years old, and their mothers participated in this study. A questionnaire probed the teaching behaviors with antecedent and consequent function emitted by the mothers for the verbal operants of echo, touch, command and intraverbal, before and after the intervention. The children were evaluated with the same operants in discrete attempts. The program instructed mothers to identify responses, provide antecedents and consequents for operants of echo, touch, command and intraverbal of the children. As a result, there was an increase in the report of teaching behaviors of the two mothers after intervention for most verbal operants. In the oral productions of the children, a more precise speech was observed just after the intervention. We conclude that mothers can be agents of verbal behavior teaching, when duly trained for such purpose.

Keywords : Reading; Writing; Cochlear Implant; Rehabilitation; Instructional Program.

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