Estudo seccional descritivo de crianças com deficiência auditiva atendidas no Instituto Nacional de Educação de Surdos, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Eduardo Jorge Custódio da
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Llerena Jr., Juan Clinton, Cardoso, Maria Helena Cabral de Almeida
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: https://cadernos.ensp.fiocruz.br/ojs/index.php/csp/article/view/3241
• topic: Pessoas com Insuficiência Auditiva; Estudos Transversais; Educação Especial

In Brazil, research is scarce on multiple disabilities and hearing disability in particular. Researchers began a pioneering study in 1992, evaluating students from public special education programs, currently focused on hearing disability. The authors evaluated 232 students ranging from 1 to 39 years of age (mean 10.9 years), with male gender prevailing. Consanguinity was present in 7.6% and a family history of deafness in 19%. Gestational complications were recorded in 33% of cases. Normal labor occurred in 72%, and delivery at term in 75%. Neonatal complications were present in 35% of the sample. Environmental causes accounted for 56% of the sample, genetic causes 20.7%, and the remaining 20.7% were classified as idiopathic. The current findings corroborate those from the literature. We believe that this study can spark greater concern for the hearing-disabled and that through increased knowledge of this group's characteristics it may foster strategies to facilitate interaction with society as a whole.