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The importance of rhythm during rehabilitation of adults with cochlear implant

The way a person functions inside himself and therefore in connection with nature following the structural patterns, is the same as a person functions with the language according to its patterns in the communication chain dependent on the structural functioning of the brain. The verbotonal method has its own approach, which is audio-visual and globally structural, therefore during the rehabilitation of listening and speech of the adults with cochlear implant, this approach has to be fully followed to get the desired results. From one side, the ability of the human brain to perceive the acoustic signals by structuring outside stimuli and by selective auditory perception on the basis of previous experiences from the other side, gives to adult deaf persons an excellent foundation for the development of the good listening skills. The human brain listens with the help of thought units, which are the carriers of the meaning. The base of thought units is a phonetic block. This paper shows the importance of a phonetic block as a rhythmical base of the thought units. To achieve good listening, it is necessary to develop rhythm of the most basic rhythms all the way to the phonetical rhythmical blocks. As the rhythm of phonetic blocks varies, in this work we will show seven phases: articulatory and proprioceptive phases of mumbling, rhymes, rhymes in space, then phases of listening starting with rhymes, listening to short sentences in speech, simple texts, listening of the new thought units from familiar speech materials all the way to the phase of intensive selective auditory perception and also to listening of the speech on electronic media.

rhythm; rehabilitation; cochlear implant

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