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Objective: The objective of the study was to determine the impact of hearing loss on the self concept of hearing impaired students and to ascertain the impact of hearing aids and cochlear implants on their self concept. Study Design:It was a descriptive, cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in Sir Syed School and College of Special Education, th Rawalpindi with permission from the concerned authority. It took the researcher six weeks from 12 Sep 2016 st to 21 Oct 2016 to collect data from hearing impaired students. Materials and Methods: An aggregate of 233 students was the sample of this study of which 103 were students using hearing devices and 120 students were using normal hearing controls. Special arrangements were made to collect the data. The hearing impaired students could choose between two versions of the questionnaire. The first version was exclusively composed of things, while in the second; everything was displayed in written text with sign language video clip appearing at the top corner of the screen by using Master Writer 3.0 software, whereas, the IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 21 was used for data analyses. Results: Multiple regression analysis showed that all dimensions of self-concept were predicting linguistic competencies of hearing impaired children with cochlear implant produced R2= 0.23, F=73.57 and p<0.05 accounted for 23% of the variance. Conclusion: The impaired children with cochlear implant showed the highest score of academic self concept and had highest level of linguistic competencies after controlling for the other factors in the model.

Sadia Batool, Tehseen Tahir, Zane Asher Green, Umbreen Ishfaq. (2017) Hearing Aids Versus Cochlear Implants: Aiding the Development of Self-Concept for Promoting Linguistic Competencies , Journal of Islamic International Medical College, Volume-12, Issue-1.
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