Academic and Intellectual Self Concept of Hearing Impaired Children

Abstract

The importance of self-concept in an individual's personal adjustment has been well recognized among psychologists. Even educators are becoming increasingly aware that a students' perception of him/ her may have a significant influence on his/her academic performance. There is a general consensus that hearing impaired children tend to have lower self-concept because of a tendency to academic failure, difficulty in information processing and the segregation from mainstream schooling that they experience.  This study was designed to find out the academic and intellectual self concept of hearing impaired children. Altogether 100 school going children in the age group of 12 to 17 years were purposively selected from special school for hearing impaired children. Out of which 50 were boys and 50 girls in each category.  Self prepared questionnaire was administered on each subject. On the whole the academic self concept was found meaningfully and positively correlated with intellectual self concept of hearing impaired children.  But no difference was found in academic and intellectual self concept of girls and boys.