Abstract:
The study investigated the major educational problems of the hearing impaired and strategies used for
tackling them. The study was conducted in Mekanisa School for the Deaf (Addis Ababa) and Hermata
Primary School (Jimma). The selection of subjects was based o
methods used to gather information from respondents were interviews, questionnaire, focus group
discussion and classroom observation checklist. The major educa
study were that the teachers were either insufficiently trained or not trained at all, the curricula were
incompatible with the capacity of hearing impaired, teachers have low command in total
communication, hearing impair
educational authorities were indifferent to the education of hearing impaired students, and the students
lack interest in academic subjects.
