Methods Of Communication Used In Educating The Hearing Impaired Children In An Inclucive Class In Kambui Primary, Kiambu District-Kanya

ABSTRACT

The researcher sought to find out the communication methods used by teachers of the

hearing impaired children. Communication can be affected because a child is unable to

hear clearly the spoken message. Persons with hearing impairment can be classified into

two main groups that are hard of hearing and deaf. Persons who are hard of hearing have

residual hearing and are able to perceive spoken language. Those who al-c deaf are unable

to perceive some spoken language or sound around them.

The researcher used the questionnaires, one for the teachers of hearing impaired and the

other one for the hearing impaired children. The method used to select those to f~l1 the

questionnaires was sampling. The researcher targeted twenty pupils ad ten teachers. All

the pupils responded and only nine teachers gave the filled forms back.

Communication involves two or• more persons that are able to use a communication

system that is understood by both. [1 is common for the hearing impaired children to have

difficult in communication because of problems in the acquisition, comprehension,

production and use of information. Children with communication difficulties experiences

serious problems which interfere with their educational, psychological and social

development.

The researcher recommends that teachers should have in service courses, seminars and

workshop to help them be able to cater for children with special needs in Education the

public should be made aware of the children with Special Needs in Education through the

churches and chiefs barazas by the teachers of Special Needs. Children who are hard of