Review Article

The effect of hearing impairment on educational achievement of hearing-impaired students

Abstract

Background and Aim: Hearing is one of the most vital sensational abilities. Learning, which is the most basic ability for human compatibility to mental development, is affected by hearing ability. The main goal of this article was to review the effect of hearing impairment on educational achievement of hearing-impaired students, especially in the field of basic learning skills (reading, writing, and mathematics).
Methods: In this article, the researches on the effect of hearing impairment on educational achievement were reviewed. There were 37 articles extracted from different databases such as Iran Medex, Scopus, PubMed, Magiran, Iran Journal, Google Scholar, and 12 credible books published from 1944 to 2013. In order to search in these databases, educational achievement and other related keywords were used.
Conclusion: Hearing impairment affects listening skills, which is a mental process and is known as the first lingual skill. Subsequently, other lingual skills and learning abilities like educational achievement are affected as well. In order to decrease the educational gap in hearing-impaired students, it is very important to interfere in early stages and use of presentation methods to improve lingual skills in educational system.

1. Valman HB. The first year of life. 3rd ed. London: British Medican. Association; 1989.
2. Kazemtarghi M, Keshavarzi Arshad F, Salehi M. The comparison of primary verbal nonverbal and mathematical concept formation in 4-6-year-old children with normal and impaired hearing. Audiol. 2011;20(1):9-15. Persian.
3. Kakojoibari AA, Farajollahi M, Sharifi A, Jarchian F. The effect of hearing impairment on mathematical skill of hearing-impaired elementary-school students. Audiol. 2012;21(2):19-25. Persian.
4. Harrell RW. Pure tone evaluation. In: Katz J, Burkard RF, Medwestsky L, editors. Handbook of clinical audiology. 5thed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins; 2002. p. 71-87.
5. Sharifi A, Kakojoibari AA, Sarmadi MR. Comparison of different levels of reading comprehension between hearing-impaired and normal-hearing students. Audiol. 2010;19(2):25-32. Persian.
6. Campbell JR, Kelly DL, Mullis IVS, Martin MO, Sainsbury M. Framework and specifications for PIRLS assessment. 2nded. Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College; 2001.
7. Kakojoibari AA, Sarmadi MR, Sharifi A. Comparison of reading literacy of hearing impaired students in three educational degrees. J Rehab. 2010;11(3):8-14. Persian.
8. Kakojoibari AA, Sarmadi MR, Sharifi A. Comparison of reading literacy in hearing impaired and normal hearing students. Audiol. 2010;19(1):23-30. Persian.
9. Kakojoibari AA, Sharifi A. A comparison of reading comprehension level between integrated students with hearing impairment and normal students. Iranian J Exceptional Children. 2012;12(1):43-53. Persian.
10. Sharifi A, Kakojoibari AA, Sarmadi MR. The effects of promoting educational level on the development of reading comprehension levels in hearing-impaired students. Audiol. 2011;20(2):95-101. Persian.
11. Swanwick R, Watson L. Literacy in the homes of young deaf common and distinct features of spoken language and sign bilingual environment. J Early Childhood Literacy. 2005;5(1):53-78.
12. Antia SD, Jones PB, Reed S, Kreimeyer KH. Academic status and progress of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in general education classrooms. J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ. 2009:14(3):293-311.
13. Moog J, Geers A. EPIC: a program to accelerate academic progress in profoundly hearing-impaired children. The Volta Review. 1985;87(6):259-77.
14. Kakojoibari AA, Sharifi A. Hearing-impaired students' reading skills in exceptional and ordinary schools. Audiol. 2012;21(4):44-50. Persian.
15. Wauters LN, Van Bon WHJ, Telling AEJM. Reading comprehension of dutch deaf children. Read write. 2006;19(1):49-76.
16. Kakojoibari AA, Ganji M, Samadifar J. The association of early intervention with academic achievement in elementary students with hearing impairment. Research on exceptional children. 2010;9(4):357-66. Persian.
17. Fathi D, Keshavarzi Arshad F, Jamali Firoozabadi M. Massah O. Comparison of disorder behaviors and behavioral compromise of students of exceptional educational and especial system with integrated education system. J Rehab. 2012;12(1):48-55. Persian.
18. Howarth SB. Effective integration physically handicapped children in primary shcools. 1sted. Berkshire: NFER-Nelson; 1987.
19. Nikkhou F, Hasanzadeh S, Afrooz GhA. The comparative study of reading comprehension in normal hearing and hearing loss student. Audiol. 2012;21(2):75-86. Persian.
20. Rezaei M, Rashedi V, Gholami Tehrani L, Daroei A. Comparison of reading comprehension and working memory in hearing-impaired and normal-hearing children. Audiol. 2013;22(1):67-74. Persian.
21. Rezaei M, Rashedi V, Tehrani L. Investigation and comparison of fifth grade elementary student’s reading skills with sever hearing loss and hearing in Tehran. J Rehab. 2013;14(1):17-22. Persian.
22. McAnally PL, Rose S, Quigley SP. Language learning practices with deaf children. 1sted. Austin, TX: Pro-Ed; 1994.
23. Hasanzadeh S. Psychology and education of deaf children. 1sted. Tehran: Samt; 2009.
24. Williams C. Teacher judgment of the language skills of hearing impaired children. Child language teaching therapy. 2006;22(2):133-54.
25. Borg E, Edquist G, Reinholdsun AC, Risberg A, Allister B. Speech and language development in a population of swedish hearing-impaired pre-school children, a cross-sectional study. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2007;71(7):1061-77.
26. Crosson J, Ceers A. Analysis of narrative ability in children with cochlear implanst. Ear Hear. 2001;22(5):381-94.
27. Caustad MG, Kelly RR. The relationship between reading achievement and morphological word analysis in deaf and hearing students matched for reading level. J Deaf Stud Deaf Educe. 2004;9(3):269-85.
28. Yaghobi A, Ghorbani A. Sentence writing and percption of written sentences in hearing-imapaired and normal-hearing primary school students in Hamadan. Audiol. 2010;19(1):31-8. Persian.
29. Shariatrazavi E, Modaresi Y. Study the Grammatical and lingual skills in hard of hearing children in the schools for the deaf in Tehran. Audiol. 1998;5(1-2):36-45. Persian.
30. Swanwick R, Oddy A, Roper T. Mathematics and deaf children: an explanation of barriers to success. Deaf Educ Int. 2005;7(1):1-21.
31. Blatto-Valle G, Kelly RR, Gaustad MG, Porter J, Fonzi J. Visual spatial representation in mathematical problem solving by deaf and hearing students. J Deaf Stud Educ. 2007;12(4):432-48.
32. Kritzer KL. Family meditation of mathematically based concepts while engaged in a problem-solving activing with their young deaf children. J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ. 2008;13(4):503-17.
33. Bull R, Marschark M, Blatto-Vallee G. SNARC hunting; examining number representation in deaf students. Learn Individ Differ. 2005;15(3):223-36.
34. Kelly RR, Gaustad MG. Deaf college students mathematical skills relative to morphological knowlegde, reading level, and language proficiency. J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ. 2007;12(1):25-37.
35. Sharifi A, Kakojoibari AA. The effect of educational level elevation on the mathematical skill in hearing-impaired students. Audiol. 2013:22(1):10-17. Persian.
36. Trbus RJ, Karchmer MA. School achievement scores of hearing impaired children: national data on achievement status and growth pattern. Am Ann Deaf. 1977;122(2):62-9.
37. Hunt N, Marshall K. Exceptional children and youth. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; 1999.
38. Northern JL, Downs MP. Hearing in children. 4thed. Baltimore: Williams & wilkins; 1991.
39. Traxler CB. Measuring up to performance standards in reading and mathematics: achievement of selected deaf and hard-of-hearing students in the national norming of the 9th edition stanford achievement test. J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ. 2000.
40. Adams C, Brown BB, Edwards M. Developmental disorders of language. 2nd ed. London: Whurr Pulishers; 1998.
41. Bench J. Communication skills in hearing impaired children. 1st ed. London: Whurr Publishers; 1992.
42. Kyle FE, Harris M. Concurrent correlates and predictors of reading and spelling achievement in deaf and hearing school children. J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ. 2006;11(3):273-88.
43. McGruk H, MacDonald J. Hearing lips and seeing voices. Nature. 1976;264(3):746-8.
44. Miller P. What the visual word recognition skills of prelingally deafened readers tell about their reading comprehension problems. J Dev Phys Disabil. 2006;18(2):91-121.
45. Sporer N, Brunstein JC, Kieschke U. Improving students, reading comprehension skills effects of strategy instruction and reciprocal teaching. learning instruction ERIC. 2009;19(3):272-86.
46. Zarfaty Y, Nunes T, Bryant P. The performance of young deaf children in spatial and temporal number tasks. J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ. 2004;9(3):315-26.
47. Hallahan DP, Kauffman JM. Exceptional children:introduction to special education 5thed. Virginia: University of Virginia; 1994.
48. Luterman D. Kurtzer-whitel E, Seewald R. The young deaf child. 1sted. Baltimore: York Press; 1999.
49. Blamy PJ. Development of spoken language by deaf children. In: Marsckark M, Spencer PE, Nathan PE. The Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language & education. 5thed. Newyork: Oxford University Press; 2010. p. 232-45.
IssueVol 23 No 2 (2014) QRcode
SectionReview Article(s)
Keywords
Hearing impairment educational achievement hearing-impaired reading writing mathematics

Rights and permissions
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
How to Cite
1.
Kakojoibari AA, Sharifi A. The effect of hearing impairment on educational achievement of hearing-impaired students. Aud Vestib Res. 2017;23(2):19-30.