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.
The aim of the current study was to detect the difference between
speech clarity in children with hearing disabilities and the use of
earphones and children in cochlear implants by applying a test
designed for this purpose to a sample of 10 childr
en, cochlear
implants and 10 children Ear, in the centers of speech rehabilitation
in Damascus.
