The expectation of the cochlear implant (CI) user is recovering auditory sensitivity and
understands spoken language. Considering the auditory rehabilitation as a prerequisite for
the development of language skills, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of
training on the behavior of the listener to speaker in this group, check the emergence of
relationships and the generalization to indirectly taught voice different frequency.
Participated of the study three adults with profound, bilateral, neurosensory hearing, loss
post-lingual, CI users, with time deprivation (TD) ranging from 5 months to 23 years. Data
were collected with a computer with touch screen and application programming routines for
the teaching and testing. The teaching program, with seven stages, had choice according to
the model. Phase 1) Pre-train for habituation, the participant with auditory-visual tasks by
fading out, 2) Pre-test naming and reading, to select 8 words for training, 3) Training of
relations between dictated words and figures; 4) Training of relations between dictated
words and written words; 5) Testing equivalence class, which were not directly taught; 6)
generalization testing, with the dictated words, with an adult male voice; 7) Post-test of
picture naming and word reading. Two of the three participants learned the tasks (Phases 3
and 4), and showed equivalence class (Phase 5) e generalization (Phase 6). All of the
participants improved their ability of speaking after the study (Phase 7). The performance of
the participant with 23 years of TD, which presented difficulties in oral language, was low,
indicating further investigation of the variables due to flaw on the training, or to the IC
operation, or inappropriate use of the device, etc. More studies are required to evaluate the
potential of the procedure adopted for the auditory rehabilitation of CI users.
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