Comparative investigation about impaired hearing students in integrate and atypical schools; behavioral characteristics, feeling loneliness and rejection

Abstract

The aim of this study is a comparative investigation upon hearing impairment among students, behavioral characteristics, feeling loneliness and rejection. The study is a science- comparative one. The sample was composed of hearing impaired high school students in integrated and atypical students of Shiraz.One hundred students were chosen as sample. Means of data collection were Ratter behavioral questionnaire (teacher form), children loneliness index and peers rejection questionnaire. Data were analyzed by SPSS software and t-test. According to teachers, results showed no significant differences between hearing impaired students in integrative and atypical schools in terms of behavioral characteristics and abnormalities. Also students in integrative schools feel more loneliness and rejection feeling than students in atypical schools. © IDOSI Publications, 2014.