Perceived Influence of Auditory Training in the Academic Performance of Students With Hearing Impairment in Mathematics in Orodo, Imo State
CHAPTER ONE
Objectives of Study
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of auditive training device in enhancing academic performance of students with hearing impairment in Imo state with the following objectives:
- To find the types of auditive training used by the students.
- To examine how auditive training is used in enhancing academic performance.
- To determine the extent to which students with hearing impairment can academically perform with auditive training.
- To help the use of auditive training in institutions of learning among student with hearing impairment.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELAVANT LITERATURE
CONCEPT OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT
Impairment according to Ozoji (2005) is the mother of special education needs. He pointed out that impairment refers to abnormality or disorders of physical structure/organs of the body. Abnormality of structure or its malfunctioning is determined from normality of structure/functioning. Ozoji further states that impairment is concerned with defect, imperfection, deviation damage or shortcoming of the various organs of the body. A person is considered as having impairment when there us damage of his/her body organ. To this end, I can air my opinion on the definition of hearing impairment as damage to the organs of hearing structure of the body (of a person). As value as impairment to the special needs education so, is hearing organs to man for the purpose of life.
Hearing is considered as one of special gifts of God to mankind and sometimes refers to as distant sense”. It is because a good hearing system enable an individual to dictates or perceive the presence of sound of different kinds from afar and around one’s environment (Okuoyibo, 2004). Hence it is noticeable to say that hearing is very important in the life of every man indeed.
Babudoh, (2008) defines hearing impairment as an umbrella term which refers to a condition where there is a decrease in the individual’s ability to hear and discriminate sound. According to Babudoh (2008) hearing impairment may be defined using three major criteria namely: time of onset, degree of loss and the site lesion.
TIME OF ONSET: deal with when the hearing impairment emerged I the life of a client. When it is the focus of discussion, we have congenital hearing impairment and adventitious hearing impairment. The two are purely different in that congenital hearing impairment emerged before birth of before the client /victim acquired a meaningful language. While adventitious occurs after the affected victim already acquired a meaningful language and a lot of experiences in life.
DEGREE OF LOSS: handle the seriousness of the impairment/loss. The numerous degree of loss the authors who have written on hearing impairment is hard of hearing, deafness. Hard of hearing is condition whereby the affected individuals hearing is disabled to the extent that understanding of speech difficult through the ear alone with or without amplification for life (Babudoh, 2008).
According to Babudoh (2008) deafness is a condition whereby an individual’s hearing is so disabled that procured perception and understanding of speech sound through the ear alone with or without amplification for ordinary purpose of life. The definition of hearing impairment focuses on types, Babudoh, listed three types which are; conductive hearing loss deals with malfunction or malfunctioning of the conductive apparatus of the ear.
Sensorineural hearing loss is damaged done to the inner ear. This loss emerged as a result of excessive use of or misuse of drugs, exposure to excessive noise and diseases.
CHAPTER THREE
METHOD AND PROCEDURE
RESEARCH DESIGN
The research design used for this study was an experimental research especially the true experimental. This design employed the used of pre-test and post test to carry out the experiment on subject or the groups under investigation. And it must have control and experimental group. This design is chosen because it is suitable t collect information from sample for the research to be done.
POPULATION AND SAMPLE
The population for this study consists of 88 students with hearing impairment in Imo state School for the Deaf. They differ according to degree of loss (mild, moderate, severe and profound). The sample used for the study is 30 students with hearing impairment on campus.
SAMPLING TECHNIQUE
The sampling technique used for this study was a simple random sampling where respondents, were selected at random without bias. Every member from the study population stands the chance to be selected and form sample for the study. The selection of the sample are done through contact luck as the researcher move round the special education department lecture hall and he environment to chose his sample (respondents) without bias.
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
This chapter presents and analysis the data collected for the study.
DATA PRESENTATION
Table 4 shows that 33% (10) of the respondents said that mobility impairment alternative device technology are used by hearing impaired students 16% (5) of the respondents said that auditive training for the hearing impaired is used by students with hearing impairment 7%(2) of the respondents were accounted to respond that auditive training for cognitive is being made used by students with hearing impairment, while 10%(3) of the respondents were of the opinion that prosthesis is another type of technology used by students with hearing impairment, while 7%(2) of the respondents also noted that auditive training in sports are been used by students with hearing impairment while 27%(8) of the respondents opinion indicate that students with hearing impairment have access to the computer.
CHAPTER FIVE
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
CONCLUSION
The introduction of auditive training in education is a giant and magnificent effort towards academic excellence. Hence, as we all know, the important of auditive training in education cannot be overemphasized educational administrators should put more effort to ensure that these (auditive training) are available and in good condition for effective delivering of lectures and students when and due.
Educational/administrative should see to this local product of auditive training and welcomed when the available funds at lands cannot afford to buy or import from outside the environment, after all popular saying goes thus: half bread is better maintain between the educational administration and the outside world-government and non-governmental organizations, so that they can receive help hand to improve educational provision of which auditive training is among the numerous.
This is my prayer that provision of auditive training will steadily improve and available in every educational institution to upholds the excellence of education in this our great nation and the world at large in Christ.
RECOMMENDATIONS
We are all aware of the significant importance of auditive training in enhancing academic performance not only among students with hearing impairment but also students without impairment. Based on the findings the following recommendations are made.
- Effort should be made to produce local auditive training. This enables many low-financial-standing educational institutions to afford to buy them and use in delivering lectures when the imported ones are very expensive.
- Institutional management should encourage art practice among their undergraduate so through them they can give auditive training locally and cheap even in absence of adequate funds.
- Government should improve in their attitude of seeing education as a dump ground for political and carryout her responsibilities of providing funds to ensure effective services for the good of her citizens in education sectors is effectively and efficiently meet.
- Lecturers should be given skills improving service such as workshop, training, seminars, which will increase their ability to handle modern technology for delivering their services.
- Students, especially the exceptional ones should be encouraged to work very hard for academic excellence with or without auditive training in the process.
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDIES
There is need to investigate into attitude of non-governmental organizations and wealthy individuals as well as businessmen and women towards the provision of auditive training in education setting. Further studies should be carried out in the following areas.
- An investigation towards the quality of auditive training is provided.
- Methodology of delivering lectures to specially the hearing impairment.
- An investigation between the relationship of instructional management and their special students with hearing impairment.
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