[Hearing status, causes of impairment and rehabilitation of the hard-of-hearing students in the elementary school].

The entering to the hard-of-hearing elementary school require some stage of speech development. This situation demands the early diagnosis of hearing disorders, early hearing aids and two or more years of speech and hearing rehabilitation. In the group of hard-of-hearing school pupils the detailed history was taken. The aim of this analysis was to clarify the condition necessary to enter to the hard-of-hearing elementary school. We have asked about the age of diagnosis, kind of hearing impairment, time and intensity of rehabilitation, hearing aids utility and speech development status.