Identifying factors affecting effective education for deaf students (reading of lived experiences)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Assistant Professor of Educational Management, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran

2 Master of Department of Educational Management, Zahedan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zahedan, Iran.

Abstract

Introduction: Hearing is one of the most vital sensory abilities without which many human abilities to adapt to the environment are overshadowed, and learning, which is the most basic human ability to adapt to the environment, environment creation and mental and cognitive development, is also under the influence of this important sense. contract. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of identifying the factors affecting the effective education of deaf students (reading the lived experience) of Zahedan city.
Method: This research was applied in terms of aim and exploratory, qualitative phenomenological type, in terms of method. The statistical population of the study was teachers and employees of schools of heading impaired students and employees of the Department of Exceptional Education in Zahedan, selected by purposeful sampling method up to reaching the theoretical saturation (16 people). Data were collected using semi-structured interviews. Corbin and Strauss coding (1990) methods were used to analyze the data.
Results: The results of coding were 139 codes in the open coding stage, 25 sub-categories in the axial coding stage and 5 main categories in the selected coding stage. Finally, 5 factors of appropriate educational space and services, efficiency of educational and rehabilitation forces, students' needs, family support and adaptation of educational content were identified as important factors affecting the effective education of Hearing impaired students.
Discussion and Conclusion: One of the effective factors in improving effective education for deaf students is the use of an expert teacher with a field of education for exceptional children and the special equipping of their schools with classrooms with sound control walls, having a speech therapy room, a smart board, appropriate tables and chairs. And editing and revising textbooks is specific to this type of students.

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