EFFECTIVENESS OF ACTIVITY-BASED LEARNING AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT

Children with Hearing Impairment are a challenging group because of their inadequate language thus having an impact on their academic achievement. This inadequacy in language makes the task of reading and writing difficult. However, these children cannot be exempted from such training, as they need to work harder to perform on par with their typical peers in a mainstream environment. The study was conducted with the purpose of developing an activity-based learning material for language development for pre-school children with hearing impairment using a systematic intervention technique. The sampling technique employed was purposive in nature seeking children with hearing impairment studying in a special preschool set-up. A total seven children with hearing impairment within the age group of 3-4.5 years, selected for the study. The collected data, subjected to appropriate quantitative analysis. The results show that the activity worksheets and their related interventional practice worksheets were found to be helping the participants in improving the concepts as well as the related activities. The present study was an effort to conduct an experiment to study the efficacy of the developed activity worksheets for language and concept development among children with hearing impairment.