Atuação fonoaudiológica com educandos com implante coclear no ensino fundamental

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Introduction: The development of learning with implanted students (CI) in elementary school is a problem in the school environment that needs to be discussed and one of the professionals qualified to intervene in difficulties that may interfere during this process and in school performance is the speech therapist. The role of the speech therapist in learning difficulties with CI users is a mitigating possibility for the social problem that permeates political, educational, socioeconomic and cultural issues. Objective: to analyze the importance of educational speech therapy with students using cochlear implants in elementary school. Methods: this is a bibliographic research, with a qualitative and quantitative study and had as procedures and instruments for data collection the search for journals indexed in databases. The articles were from 2016 to 2020, with national publications in the last five years, written by speech therapists or by speech therapists and another area of expertise, and/or written by other professionals citing speech therapy as important in the researched topic. Results and Discussion: Seven articles were included to organize the results, being arranged in a chart for further analysis of the results, making it possible to establish an overview, as shown in Chart 1. In a second moment, the data were arranged in graphs in which the following findings were established: type of research, area of activity of the research authors, type of institution, year of publication, age of students with CI in research, UF, description of speech therapy. Conclusion: one can see the importance of the speech therapist in the education of students with CI in elementary school, noting that inclusion generates benefits in the school and social performance of CI users.

Key words: Cochlear implant, elementary school, educational speech therapy