This study aims to identifythe effect of hearing impairment on the the development
of communication of poor-hearing children. Validity and reliability have been examined
for the instrument and were approved to be usedin the current study.The instru
ment was
developed by the researcher and consisted of (32) items. The Sample consisted of (50)
families of the hearing impaired children.
The most frequent problemswerethe child’s request for repeating the speech and
were related to finding difficulties in continuing the conversation. The least common
problem was that the child moved away from others. The finding showed that there were
no significant statistical differences in the effect of gender of poor-hearing children on the
development of communicationand in their parents’ educathional level.
This study aimed to recognize the parent’s attitudes of normal and hearing impaired
pupils towards the inclusion of those pupils in first stage of basic learning.
The sample consisted of 40 hearing impaired parents and 40 normal pupils’ parents.
T
he researcher applied the descriptive analytic approach.
The instrument used is a scale for parents’ attitudes towards inclusion hearing
impaired pupils in public schools. Then the data were analyzed using SPSS.
The results of the study were:
1- There are statistically significant differences in hearing impaired pupils’ parents
and normal pupils’ parents for the sake of hearing impaired pupils’ parents in all scale
dimensions.
2- There are no statistically significant differences in normal pupils parents towards
inclusion according to the variable of gender in the first and fourth dimensions (general
attitude towards inclusion, the effect of inclusion program on normal pupils). However
there are statistically significant differences in normal pupils parents towards inclusion in
second and third dimensions (the parents’ attitudes of hearing impaired and normal pupils
towards inclusion and the effect of inclusion on hearing impaired pupils).
3- There are no statistically significant differences in hearing impaired pupils parents
towards inclusion according to the variable of gender.
4- There are no statistically significant differences in hearing impaired pupils parents
and normal pupils parents towards inclusion according to the variable of educational level.
This study aims to score psychological, academic and economic
problems faced by students with special needs in the Faculty of Arts at
the University of Damascus and to identify the differences in these
problems between the research samples. The sa
mple consisted of / 72/
students from the students of the Faculty of Arts at Damascus
University, was selected deliberate manner.
