The Social support as perceived by acoustically handicapped children and its relation with their social communication
Research Abstract
The present study aimed to identify the nature of the relationship between social support as perceived by hearing-impaired children and their social communication. It also aimed to identify the differences in the degree of perceived social support between the two sexes (male - female), and to identify differences in the degree of social communication between the two sexes (males - Females), and to identify the differences in the degree of perceived social support among children with hearing impairment in terms of the degree of hearing (deaf - hard of hearing), and to identify the differences in the degree of social communication between hearing-impaired children in terms of the degree of hearing (deaf - hard of hearing). The sample is (160) of the hearing-impaired children in Al-Amal primary schools for the deaf and hard of hearing, and their ages ranged between (9-12) years, with an average age of (10.72) years, and a standard deviation (0.82). The study tools were represented in the form of data collection on the handicapped child Acoustically, the scale of socio-economic and cultural level prepared by Hamdan Fadda (1997), the measure of perceived social support translated into sign language prepared by the researcher, and the scale of social communication translated into sign language prepared by the researcher, and it was done with The data was presented statistically through the statistical program (SPSS), and the results showed: There is a positive statistically significant correlation between perceived social support and social communication on all dimensions at the level of (0.01), and statistically significant differences were found between the mean scores of males and females of children with disabilities. Hearing in favor of males in social support as a total score and as sub-dimensions, which are all statistically significant at a level of significance (0.01), and there are statistically significant differences between the mean scores of males and females of children with hearing disabilities in favor of males in social communication as a total score and as sub-dimensions, which are all statistically significant At the level of significance (0.01), there are also statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the hard of hearing and deaf children with hearing impairment in favor of the hearing impaired in social support as a total score and as sub-dimensions, which is statistically significant in the dimension of family and friends and the total score at a level of significance (0.01), It is a function of the teachers' dimension at (0.05) level, and there are statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the hearing impaired and the deaf children with hearing impairment in favor of the hearing impaired in communicating For social support as a total score and as sub-dimensions, which is statistically significant in the dimension of family and friends and the overall score at the level of significance (0.01), and a function of the teachers dimension at the level (0.05). The level of social support also predicts the level of social communication among children with hearing impairments at a level of significance (0.01). ).
Research Keywords
The Social support as perceived by acoustically handicapped children and its relation with their social communication