Research On Characteristics Of Conversational Understanding-Auditory Memory And Their Relationship For Hearing Impairments Aged 4-6

The most important function of language is communication, while understanding the language is the premise of communication. Conversational understanding is the most common and the most commonly used to get information in the daily life. The most important is the language rehabilitation system hasn’t the conversational understanding test. So exploring the characteristics and influencing factors about conversational understanding on hearing impaired children has important implication.This study explores the preparing of conversational understanding testing material from the perspective of language cognition and we form the material for 4-6 year old children. Concluding and adding the auditory memory test, we sum up the characteristics of hearing impaired children’s auditory memory. On the study of relationship between the auditory memory and conversational understanding, we focus on which auditory memory test form is most relative to the ability of conversational understanding on hearing impaired children.The research shows:(1) there is significant difference between hearing impaired children and age-matched normal children in conversational understanding (p=0.014), task levels has significant difference on conversational understanding result (p=0.000)(2) in auditory memory test, there is no difference between hearing impaired children and age-matched normal children in hearing working memory and auditory short memory,while the recall sentance is not (p=0.02)(3) the conversational understanding is associated with auditory memory,while the recall sentances is the most relevanted; presumably, the recall sentances is one of the most important factors that affects conversational understanding result of hearing impaired children.The meaning of this study were explored and forming the conversational understanding testing material for 4-6 years old children; summarized the test of auditory memory; increased the the recall sentances test; provided reference for clinical practice.