Covid-19 has been affecting all walks of lives, particularly students. Students are required to switch to online learning in the two years period of this pandemic, increasing the loads of emotional burden on their education especially to the special needs students. One of them being the hearing impaired students, who are facing significant amount of difficulties in adapting to the new style of learning. This study aims to investigate the effect of online learning during Covid-19 to hearing impaired students’ comprehension skill. The differences in approaches taken and ability to adapt to online learning are needed to be taken into consideration to evaluate the effects of online learning to comprehension skill. An online survey that consists of three sections was distributed through random sampling to special needs teachers. A total of 35 respondents have completed the survey. The results found that there are approaches taken by the teachers to teach and enhance hearing impaired students’ comprehension skill which include sign language and making videos for online learning. It can also be found that online learning during Covid-19 has affected hearing impaired students negatively. The negative effects on hearing impaired students are the significant drop in students’ reading task performance, deterioration of prior knowledge usage and the decline in average achievement level in completing reading comprehension tasks.
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To Cite this Article: Bachik, N. A., & Aladdin, A. (2022). The Impacts of Online Learning during Covid-19 to Hearing Impaired Students’ Comprehension. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(12), 2321– 2335.
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