Challenges facing students with hearing loss in integration program as perceived by teachers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Document Type : Original Article

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Assistant Professor of Special Education - College of Education Al-Jouf University - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

     The study aimed to identify the challenges facing students with hearing loss in the integration programs classes as perceived by teachers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study followed the descriptive analytical approach. The study sample consisted of (370) teachers, The results showed that the challenges facing students with hearing loss in the integration programs came to a very large degree. The challenges related to academic integration ranked first, followed by challenges related to locational integration, then challenges related to social integration, all of which came to a very large degree. The results also revealed that there were no statistically significant differences in the challenges facing students with hearing loss in the integration programs according to the program category variable (deaf, hard of hearing), while there were statistically significant differences according to the educational stage variable (primary, intermediate, secondary), and Differences in favor of primary school.
    The most prominent recommendations of the study came to the need for the Ministry of Education to take into account the results of the current study when planning to develop the process of integrating students with hearing loss into the mainstream schools, and to organize training courses to qualify teachers of students with hearing loss, and Providing material and moral facilities in the integration programs.

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Volume 90, Issue 90 - Serial Number 90
مناهج وطرق التدریس ( اللغة العربیة- الإنجلیزیة – الفرنسیة – الریاضیات – العلوم- الفنون- الاقتصاد المنزلی- التجاری ... )
October 2021
Pages 581-619
  • Receive Date: 04 June 2021
  • Revise Date: 19 June 2021
  • Accept Date: 24 June 2021