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Master Title

Effectiveness of peer tutoring strategy on improving verbal communication level in hard of hearing children

Master Abstract

Peer tutoring is an effective means of remediating skill deficits in children with disabilities. However, there is a paucity of research that evaluates its usefulness with children who have hearing impairments. The present study evaluated the effectiveness of peer tutoring on increasing verbal communication in hard of hearing children. The current study aims to prepare a training peer tutoring-based program to investigate its effectiveness on improving verbal communication level in hard of hearing children, in the light of including those children in regular schools according to the Ministerial Decree No. 94 of 2007. The current study used the following tools: Stanford Binet intelligence scale fourth edition (translated by Lewis Kamel Mleka, 1998). Speech-Language Disorders Rating Scale (translated by Iman Kashef and Hamada El-zaiat). Peer Tutoring Strategy. To verify the study hypothesis the researcher used the following statistical styles: 1. Mann-Whitney Test. 2. Wilcox on Signed Ranks Test. 3. Matched- Pairs Rank biserial correlation. 4. Rank biserial correlation. The main results showed that there is main significance statistically differences after using peer tutoring strategy on improving verbal communication level (verbal comprehension and expressive language).

PHD Title

EFFECTIVENESS OF PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS SKILLS TRAINING ON DEVELOPING PRAGMATIC LANGUAGE IN DEAF CHILDREN WITH COCHLEAR IMPLANTS

PHD Abstract

Hearing impairment has a devastated impact on language development, because of losing ability to hear and understand speech, related to poor vocabulary and let them unable to involve with others in turn the failure in pragmatic language. Cochlear implantation helped those children to improve and invest their hearing remains, so they in gross need to suitable training programs aims at developing their social life and full integration in the world of hearings. The common impact of hearing loss is on learning and acquiring language like normally developing hearing children, which may related to their poor cognitive skills and unrich language environment which deprive them from language (Lederberg & Spencer, 2001, 88-89). Not only cognitive abilities affects the child ability to acquire vocabulary, but mode of communication within family also. Cochlear implantation is one of the most effective therapeutic choices that confirmed its effectiveness in helping those children to overcome previous mentioned problems, which considered a safe and helpful method for children with severe hearing loss to make use of their hearing remains through improving their auditory performance, and its efficiency in increasing vocabulary and language development through phonological awareness (Houston, &Miyamoto, 2010, P. 1248).