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Development of Creativity In Hearing And Speech Impaired Children Of Preschool and School age

Even today many teachers still consider creativity to be the privilege of gifted and talented children while children with difficulties in development are not perceived as the children with such potentials. There are methods for stimulating creativity in children with difficulties and/or reviving affinitiesor even endowmentand in this way at the same time increasecognitive, psychic, language-speech, tactile, visual, sensory and motor abilities. Particular importance of stimulating creativity is in the fact that students with difficulties develop positive attitudes towards themselves ; the difficulty is not in the foreground any more, but on the contrary, child’s ability to be creative. In the SUVAG Polyclinic primary school the verbotonal method with its procedures in the process of rehabilitation of hearing and speech impaired children stimulates children to use all their sensorial potentials to buildas good communication as possible with their environment and to develop all their creative potentials, and in some children their giftedness. In this paper will be demonstrated the achievements of hearing and/or speech impaired students rehabilitated by use of the verbotonal method in their creative expression. The aim of educational and rehabilitation verbotonal approach is to stimulate creativity in children with difficulties and to improve auditory skills, memory, spoken language, articulation and communication skills. The goal of the project was to put on stage the performance in which the students will show the achievements of this educational and rehabilitation programme. Method The programme of stimulating creativity using the verbotonal method was composed of rehabilitation and educational procedures that were proceeding during two school years (2011/2012 and 2012/2013). Procedures were as follow: - Body movement stimulations - Musical stimulations - Stimulation of verbal communication through dramatization - Recognition of students in art/visual domain 132 hearing and speech impaired students and students with speech and language difficulties of the age from 4 to 15 were participating in the programme of stimulating creativity using the verbotonal method. The average age of participants was 9, 2. Six speech and language therapists and twelve teachers were participating in the process. Expected Outcomes From these activities children gain: - better interaction with a range of ages, - benefits of work together before a goal can be reached, - opportunity to use specific talents and appreciate that everyone can provide something different to enhance the whole, - a sense of fulfilment when their contribution goes on display, - an opportunity to express their thoughts and creativity, including a need to refine and clarify their explanations to each other (better verbal expression), - support for mainstream inclusion. From these activities teachers, speech and language therapists and parents gain: - ability to identify academic and social strengths and weaknesses in individual children, - better defining of teaching strategies in general and often in specific, strategies for supporting individual learners in higher order skills such as collaborative team-working, - evaluation of children verbal and nonverbal skills, - devising practical support for parents with a view to enrol them in this part of their children's development.

Development Of Creativity In Hearing And Speech Impaired Children Of Preschool And School Age – Case Study

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