The Effect of Hearing Impairment on The Development of Communication of Poor-Hearing Children


Abstract in English

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 instrument 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.

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