The effect of hearing loss on children's reading skill

Abstract

    Learning difficulties is a general term that describes the challenges that children face within the learning process. Although some of them have a psychological or physical disability, many of them are normal. Learning difficulties appear more evident in children with disabilities, especially the group of hearing-impaired children, as learning difficulties appear clearly in them, especially reading, because of its connection to it. Close to hearing, and the child’s awareness of what is going on around him in this world depends on the health of his five senses (hearing, sight, smell, taste and touch). When any defect occurs in one or more of them, this results in multiple difficulties in the educational process because hearing impairment has a direct impact.

    Different types of disabilities are considered one of the major obstacles facing children in the educational process. The most important of these disabilities is hearing disability, which has a direct impact on some Qur’anic skills.

These are some linguistic, communication, and reading skills, as they depend largely on auditory perceptions, and any hearing impairment may create what is called reading difficulty. Due to the importance of this topic, this study attempted to show    the impact that hearing impairment creates on the emergence of reading difficulty in a child at school.