An Approach: Saying Goodbye to the Silence

The case report presented is about a boy with auditory difficulties, who grew up in a family with a
hearing- impaired father and a deaf-mute mother. Throughout the support of a psychotherapist, as
well as of a specialist of auditory and speech difficulties, the boy has completely change his way to
communicate. The system of signs and images has been left in favor of the verbal language. The
case demonstrates the causal relation between the choice of buying a hearing aid and the process of
learning to talk and interact with others without fear. It demonstrates also that this passage is no
painless because of psychological and social implications. The considerations argued in this article
starts by the great value of communication, passing through the themes of language and images, the
use of devices for deaf, to get to their use in clinical practice through case Robert. The subtle and
intricate exchange and relationship between the language of silence and the one of sounds is
gradually illuminated. Though the present research is not carried on with a statistic method, future
development could be the investigation, on a large scale, on the socio- psychological and emotional
difficulties involved in people with hearing difficulties who have to face such a great change.