Schools for children with hearing impairment in Dhaka City : perspective of available facilities

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Title: “Schools for Children with Hearing Impairment in Dhaka City: Perspective of Available Facilities.” Introduction: Hearing impairment refers to complete or partial loss of the ability to hear from one or both ears. About two million people suffer from hearing impairment in Bangladesh (Anam, 1996). The school for hearing impairment for children with hearing impairment is the best place to get facilities beside of education for improving communication skills. Dhaka city have some hearing impairment schools so Investigator try to find out the available facilities of human resources, educational resources and therapy materials in those schools. Aim & Objective: The aim of the study was to explore he facilities available in hearing impairment schools in Dhaka city with hearing impairment. The aim was fulfilled under two specific objective as to explore the educational resources and therapy materials in hearing impairment school and to identify the availability of human resources for children with hearing impairment in hearing impairment school. Methodology: Survey methodology was used study method. Six schools were selected from 10 schools by following simple random sampling. Checklist was the data collection tool. The interview and observation were the data collection methods under this study. Result: The investigator found in Dhaka city most of the hearing impairment schools have big facilities gap like not available human resources, educational resources and therapy resources. Conclusion: These results suggest that, most of the schools need to improve their facilities because they had limited facilities.