Theme: New and Emerging Technologies in Education Computer Assisted Instruction - A Self Learning Aid for Children With Hearing Impairment
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2014
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Human learning occurs as a part of education, personal development, schooling and
training, in which self-learning plays a major role. Children with Hearing Impairment lags
behind others in terms of academic performance, this may be due to lack of motivation and
guidance towards self-learning. Thus keeping this in view Computer Assisted Instruction
was developed to promote self-learning. Seventy-Three samples were selected using
purposive sampling method, from special and inclusive schools in and around Coimbatore.
Quasi-experimental method was followed for the conduct of the study. The main
independent variables are the Age, Gender, Type of Hearing Loss, Degree of Hearing Loss,
Type of Schooling And Locality. The dependent variable includes in the study is promoting
self learning through adapted Computer assisted Instruction for the children with hearing
impairment. A Computer Assisted Instructional package was developed on the Circulatory
system. The Functions were explained in terms of oral and manual mode of communication
accompanied with the animated videos with captions and drill work for practice. The
investigator developed a checklist. The items were distributed based on the queries related
to Circulatory system in the form of objective type questions for 50 marks. The checklist
was used for testing the pre and posttest knowledge on the Circulatory system ot Humanbody. The result revealed that the students gained considerable knowledge ailer
intervention. Statistically it was concluded that the CAl incrca.ses and accelerates hearing
impaired students performance in terms of learning and developing concepts besides the
traditional chalk and talk method.