Zeitschrift für Kommunikationsstörungen, Gehörlosenstudien und Hörgeräte
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Abstrakt

Saying Goodbye to the Silence

Maria Grazia Spurio

The case report presented is about a boy with auditory difficulties', who grew up in a family with a hearing-impaired father and a deaf-mute mother. Throughout the support of a psychotherapist, as well as of a specialist in auditory and speech difficulties, the boy has completely changed his way to communicate. The system of signs and images has been left in favor of the verbal language. The case demonstrates the causal relationship between the choice of buying a hearing aid and the process of learning to talk and interact with others without fear. It also demonstrates that this passage is no painless because of psychological and social implications. The considerations discussed in this article starts by the great value of communication, passing through the themes of language and images, the use of devices for deaf, to get to their use in clinical practice through case Robert. The subtle and intricate exchange and relationship between the language of silence and the one of sounds is gradually illuminated. Although the present research is not carried on with a statistical method, future development could be the investigation, on a large scale, on the socio-psychological and emotional difficulties involved in people with hearing difficulties who have to face such a great change.