BACKGROUND: hearing abilities of HIV carrier child. PROCEDURES: children are likely to have several deficits in language development if hearing loss, as well as its etiology, has not been precociously detected. High doses of drugs taken by HIV carriers in order to control the disease have been responsible for increasing hearing impairment levels. During the process of hearing development, an individual passes through acquisition of auditory skills, which occurs in different steps of the therapeutic process, as follows: detection, discrimination, introductory identification, advanced identification and comprehension. This research is a case report, which aims to describe and characterize auditory skills in a hearing-impaired child. The child was a hearing device user and attended Speech-language therapy at the clinic located in the Estácio de Sá University Campus, in Educational Audiology supervised apprenticeship. Four speech therapy sessions were filmed for data collection, with the objective of observing presence or absence of auditory skills. RESULTS: auditory detection skills, discrimination and introductory identification were found in the individual. Advanced identification and comprehension were found in development stage, thus, they were absent. CONCLUSION: the development of auditory skills is crucial to oral language acquisition by the hearing impaired.
Hearing Loss; HIV; Language
