The specifics of reading to students with hearing and speech impairment in classes VI-VIII

• Author: Mustaf Morina
• Position: R. C. 'Mother Teresa' & Qeap-Heimerer
• Pages: 301-309

ISSN 2410-3918

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IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania

Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences Vol. 2 No. 1

March 2016

The specifics of reading to students with hearing and speech impairment in

classes VI-VIII

PhD (C.) Mustaf Morina

R. C.”Mother Teresa”& Qeap-Heimerer

Abstract

Good reading has a very important role in the development of children with hearing impaired;

also reading in explicit way is one of the crucial factors which affect the oral language

development of children with hearing impaired. The best form and possibility of improvement,

development of oral language, development of communicating, receipt of information,

knowledge, and ideas over the world, is reading. When the auditory perception is damaged

reading is poor. Hearing impairment causes a lot of problems in the development of personality

of children with hearing impairment in these fields: poor development of vocabulary, poor

quality of lexica, poor quality of sentences, and disorder in articulation. The purpose of this

research is to verify the following: 1-Speed of reading of hearing impaired children, 2-The

number of errors, 3-The kind of errors, 4-To understand the text in the context of the degree of

hearing impairment, age (class), success in school and gender. This theoretical-experimental

study was made with students from two schools; special school “Mother Teresa” in Prizren

and Primary School “Elena Gjika” in Prishtina (class attached). The research included a total

of 32 students (respondent) 27 students (respondent) from special schools “Mother Teresa” in

Prizren and 5 elementary school students “Elena Gjika” Prishtina, all these students are with

hearing impairment. From 32 students involved in the research, 23 were male and 9 female.

The research was done by applying a text fables “The fox and the raven” watched and analyzed

in terms of three dimensions. The research results have shown that students with hearing

impairments have considerable problems in many aspects; in terms of speed of reading,

students with hearing impairment have stagnated compared with their peers in the ratio 8/1.

In terms of reading errors have stagnated considered being incomparable. In terms of

understanding the text students with hearing impairment have stagnated compared with their

peers in 8/1.

Significant differences exist even within the group of deaf students in the three aspects of the

study based on three dimensions of text, the terms of the speed of reading, significant

differences exist also in the manifestation of errors and understanding of the text. Differences

are also evident in terms of the degree of the hearing impairment, in terms of age and gender

within the group of the deaf; this means that individual characteristics of students represent

important facts.

Keywords: Disabled hearing, hearing impairment, age damage, period of deterioration.

Introduction

Reading is one of most important forms of learning, and communicating in

contemporary world. Meanwhile for the children with hearing impairment, reading

is even more important because through reading, students with hearing impairment

receive basic (fundamental) knowledge about the world, society, science, culture.