Major Educational Problems Of The Hearing Impaired Students And Strategies For Tackling Them: The Case Of Two Schools In Ethiopia

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.