INTRODUCTION: Posture is determined by the systems performance, visual, somatosensorial and vestibular. Children with auditive deficiency ca presented problems in their posture or posture control, aiding the emerging of posture errors and alterations in vertebral column, possibly provoked by hipoactivity of vestibular system in a deafness consequence. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the vertebral column posture in children and teenagers with auditive deficiency in schoolage, considering the gender and age in the samples. METHOD: It was done a descriptive and prospective study at Escola Duque de Caxias and Centro de Reabilitação e Educação Especial Rotary situated in Caruaru - Pernambuco. It was evaluated 44 students with auditive deficiency , age between 7-17 years old, being 22 female gender and 22 male gender. The study was developed through a posture evaluation with the usage of a squared, marking specific anantomical points with stickers disposed over Styrofoam balls and posted with double face scotch tape. RESULTS: The results showed that all the evaluated individuals in this study presented some kind of posure alteration in vertebral column. Scoliosis was the most observed alteration among the students(84.1%) followed by thoracic hipocifose (68.2%). CONCLUSION: It was concluded that children and teenagers with auditive deficiency are exposed to posture alteration in vertebral column. This condition can be associated to a factor additions that involve the unfavorable ergonomics in the school environment, bad posture habits and vestibular system attack because of the auditive lost.
Evaluation; vertebral column; auditive lost; posture; deafness
