Language Games for Children with Hearing Impairment in Inclusive Setup
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2016
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Children with hearing impairment frequently experience speech-language
deficits and exhibit lower academic achievement and poorer social-emotional development than
their peers with normal hearing. It is the biggest task for the teachers in inclusive education to
work for the development of language among CWHI. Language games are one among the
alternatives which enables the students to remember things faster and better in an easy and
relaxed atmosphere. Present study aimed to describe the benefits of language games to develop
language among children with hearing impairment in relation to their age, gender and degree of
hearing loss. Purposive sampling technique was used to do an experiment study of 20 primary
school children aged 5 to 11 years studying at Coimbatore in Tamilnadu. A pretest and posttest
tool was prepared to find the effectiveness of using language games and five language games
were used to teach language for primary school children with hearing impairment The results
show that mean scores of posttest is relatively higher when compared to that of the pretest of
CWHI at primary level. Children of age level 9 to 11 years have scored higher than the age level of
5 to 8years. The achievement scores in pretest and posttest decreases with the increase in degree
of hearing loss. There was not much difference between the achievement scores of boys and girls.
Age and degree of hearing loss are found to be significant factors in the language development of
primary school children with hearing impairment On the whole, it was found that the language
games are effective technique in imparting language to children with hearing impairment