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    Educational Challenges of the Hearing Impaired Children: The case of two Selected Special Schools in the SNNPR State
    (Addis Ababa University, 2005-06) Sebro, Solomon; Desta, Dalliel (PhD)
    This study attempted to investigate educational challenges in teaching children "~th hearing-impairment in Mazoria special school and Durme special class for the deaf. Data for the study was collected from 44 hearing-impaired students, 9 teach ers, 2 school principals and 16 parents of the HI students. Pilot test of the questionnaire and interview was condu cted in Minilk II special class for the deaf before the actual study was conducted. The main study was conducted in Mazoria special school and Durame spe.cial class for the deaf. Questionnaire was completed by HI students. Teachers and school principals were interviewed. Parents of the HI students also participated in focus-group discussion. The finding of this study shows that the hearing-impaired students' knowledge of sign language was not developed. This could be attributed to different factors such as teachers lack of progressive and up to dated trainings, shortage of text books, irregular attendance of class, conflict of home sings and formal sign language and the like . Most of the hearing-impaired students in both schools do not attend the class regularly owing to various reasons such as long journey to school, work load at home, economic problem, parent's lack of awareness about the education of their HI children etc. The other major challenges in teaching the hearing-impaired were lack of budget to procure teaching materials, inconvenience of the classroom to teach HI students, absence of adapted curriculum etc. As it has been indicated in the finding of this study, teachers of the HI students were undermined and under estimated and their work was not valued by other people. In general, the education of the HI students lacks the attention of governmental and non-governmental agencies and community members.