LEARNING APPROACH FOR THE SPEECH TRAINING WITH DEAF STUDENTS

Pedagogy for the deaf has a long tradition of analyzing acoustic spoke n signal and presenting the result through a visual channel. The goal of these efforts is to improve the ability of the deaf student to unde rstand and articulate spoken signals. We were using a visible speech s ystem as part of a systematic approach to speech therapy with deaf sch ool children. The children's intelligibility was rated pre- and post-t herapy. The training had a positive effect on intelligibility.We have also studied the strategies developed by deaf students for interpretin g visual patterns after a one-year training period using such ''visibl e-speech'' device. We also compared the competence in using the test s ystem between deaf students and experts in the field of signal process ing who had normal hearing.