The Role of Vocational Counseling in the Rehabilitation of the Hearing Impaired Students to the Labor Market in Jeddah City

The current study aimed to identify the role of vocational counseling in the rehabilitation of the hearing impaired students to the labor market in Jeddah, it also aimed to identify the reality of vocational counseling in the rehabilitation of the hearing impaired students to the labor market in Jeddah, identify the satisfaction of the hearing impaired students about the role of vocational counseling in their rehabilitation to the labor market, and the differences in the level of satisfaction of the hearing impaired students about vocational counseling services to their rehabilitation to the labor market in Jeddah according to the different academic specialization. To achieve that, the researcher used the descriptive survey approach, Where she prepared the vocational Counseling Scale. The study reached several results, the most important of which are: that the arithmetic average of the responses of the sample members on the axis of "the reality of vocational counseling in the rehabilitation of the hearing impaired students to the labor market in the city of Jeddah" ranges from the intermediate level, the results also showed that the arithmetic average of the responses of the sample members on the axis "the satisfaction of the hearing impaired students about the vocational counseling in their rehabilitation to the labor market in Jeddah" ranges from the intermediate level, while there are statistically significant differences in the level of satisfaction of the hearing impaired students about vocational counseling services to their rehabilitation to the labor market in Jeddah according to the different academic specialization in favor of the Department of Drawing and Arts. The researcher has reached a number of recommendations, the most important of which are : to raise the level of application of vocational counseling programs for people with disabilities, to train academic advisors to provide vocational guidance and counseling programs for persons with disabilities, In addition to conduct many studies and research related to vocational counseling for persons with disabilities in general, and the hearing impaired persons in particular.