[Searching new diagnostic and rehabilitation techniques in small deaf children]. / W poszukiwaniu nowych metod diagnostyki i rehabilitacji malych dzieci gluchych.

In the generally accepted model of the diagnosis and rehabilitation in small deaf children, the main concern of various specialists is focused on the development of speech and hearing abilities. In our approach, we propose another perspective, in which the deaf child is not seen as an object of the speech education and where the specialists concentrate on the child as a whole--with his various emotional needs and psychical traits. According to that way of seeing the deaf child, we organized the diagnostic-rehabilitation courses for small deaf children and their parents (9 children aged 1.8-5 years). We found these courses as a method opening new perspectives in the process of the diagnosis and rehabilitation in the small deaf children.

[Elaboration of a model for the rehabilitation of children with severe hearing loss]. / Próba opracowania modelu postepowania rehabilitacyjnego dla dzieci z glebokim uszkodzeniem sluchu.

New diagnostic model of rehabilitation in young deaf children was performed. Study presents 33 patients with a profound hearing impairment examined by means of "day-time hospital".

[Selected problems in the rehabilitation of young children with severe hearing loss]. / Wybrane problemy rehabilitacji malych dzieci z glebokim uszkodzeniem sluchu.

The aim of the work was an analysis of the causes of difficulties in the rehabilitation of children with profound hearing loss. A theoretical basis of this analysis is the assumption that rehabilitation effects are determined by factors related to the system of care of the deaf child, diagnostic possibilities, and psychophysical properties of the child. The reported analysis was carried out in a material of 232 children aged up to 3 years, treated at the Audiology Outpatient Clinic of the Institute. The following factors were found of great importance in the analysis of difficulties in rehabilitation: care-system applied to the child with a profound hearing loss, diagnosis of the hearing impairment, type of a central nervous system disfunctions .

[Usefulness of posterior electrorhinomanometry in the study of nasal and nasopharyngeal resistance in children aged 5 to 10]. / Ocena przydatnosci elektrorynomanometrii tylnej w badaniu oporu jam nosa i nosogardla u dzieci w wieku od 5 do 10 lat.

Nasal passages constitute the physiologic airway. Impaired nasal breathing leads to various disease states. History taking and rhinoscopic examination are not sufficient for the complete evaluation of nasal respiratory patency. The authors present a case for introduction of posterior rhinomanometry (own modification) as an objective method in studying nasal patency in children, 127 healthy children (aged 5-10 years) were examined. Nasal resistance to air flow was measured. Posterior rhinomanometry was used in 198 children with impaired nasal patency of various causes. The results obtained in this study are reproducible and in accord with data in the literature. Children between 5 and 10 years of age cooperate well with the examiner. The authors find posterior rhinomanometry suitable for examination of children within this age group.