The learning, social, and economic challenges facing the deaf and hearing-impaired individuals

Abstract

The research aimed to identify the education, social, and economic challenges facing deaf and hearing-impaired individuals, the research based on a descriptive approach to suites the research objective. sample of the research consists of (105) from both deaf and hearing-impaired individuals in Al Balqa governorate selected by a convenient method and the results showed that the education, social, and economic challenges facing the deaf and hearing-impaired individuals were in the medium level. The social challenges facing hearing impaired are lack of engagement in social activity, fear to deal with others, and the discrimination feels, and the education challenges are cannot understand science material, the need for sign language translator, and lack of teachers’ ability. The research furtherly found there are statistically significant differences at a level of (0.05) in the level of social and economic challenges facing the deaf and hearing-impaired individuals according to gender, age, and qualification.   Keywords:  Deaf; Economic challenges; Education challenges; Hearing impaired; Social challenges.