Learning through Assistive Devices: A Case of Students with Hearing Impairment

Resource type
Journal Article
Authors/contributors
Title
Learning through Assistive Devices: A Case of Students with Hearing Impairment
Abstract
Present era has introduced persons with disabilities with a range of assistive devices that have rapidly increased their educational, vocational, and frivolous activities. Current descriptive study attempted to explore the effects of assistive devices on the learning of hearing impaired students. A sample of 200 hearing impaired students was selected to identify the assistive devices that are more in use by hearing impaired students. All of the assistive devices commonly used for hearing impairment were included in the study to explore the effects of each on the learning of students with hearing impairment. The mean difference in the learning of students suggested that assistive technologies are overall assistance for the students with hearing impairment and there is no substitute to these devices that could assist them in such a quite differentiated manner. The role of high tech assistive devices as well as low tech devices has been highlighted prominently. The parents of hearing impaired students were also the part of study and found satisfied with the use of assistive devices for their children. It is divulged that there is a need to reduce the cost of assistive devices to be used by the students with hearing impairment.
Publication
Bulletin of Education and Research
Volume
37
Issue
1
Pages
1-17
Date
2015/06/00
Language
en
ISSN
0555-7747
Short Title
Learning through Assistive Devices
Accessed
01/12/2020, 15:08
Library Catalogue
ERIC
Extra
Publisher: Institute of Education and Research
Citation
Farooq, M. S., Aasma, & Iftikhar, U. (2015). Learning through Assistive Devices: A Case of Students with Hearing Impairment. Bulletin of Education and Research, 37(1), 1–17. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1210345