Adaptation of a Rehabilitation Program for Prosody and Its Application on Egyptian Hearing Impaired Children

"The prosody treatment program is an evidence-based practice targeting receptive and expressive prosodic skills in addition to speech production, intelligibility, pragmatics and phonology. The program incorporates the principles of validated prosodic rehabilitation strategies such as Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC), Melodic Intonation Therapy, Lee Silverman Voice Treatment in addition to expert professional practice.~The program was applied using a systematic approach of providing cues to help accelerate the child's learning of the prosodic skills targeted in the program. The program is divided into two sections according to the age into preschool section and school age section."

Auditory rehabilitation therapy included activities targeting auditory skills: sound detection, discrimination, identification and auditory comprehension. Language rehabilitation targeted improving semantics, syntax, pragmatics and phonology.