Mariya Zinyakova

The article presents the results of studying the auditory perception of speech by preschool children with a cochlear implant. It is noted that if a child has lost his hearing in the pre-linguistic period, he needs a long period of rehabilitation aid. This is especially important for children, who are being brought up by deaf parents. By the end of the first stage of rehabilitation, the child is only able to react to short instructions that include everyday words with concrete semantics. Similar in sound composition lexical units are not differentiated. Underdeveloped auditory perception negatively affects the quality of the child's independent speech.