القدرات اللغوية و الكتابية للطلاب الصم و ضعاف السمع ببرنامج السنة التأهيلية بجامعة الملك سعود

Abstract EN

The study aimed at identifying the linguistic and writing abilities of the deaf and hard of hearing students of the preparatory year program in King Saud University.

The study sample consisted of 61 deaf and hard of hearing students (29 deaf and 32 hard of hearing) registered in the preparatory year program in King Saud University.

A linguistic and writing teast pprepared by the researcher was administered to the sample.

The test consists of eight elements covering two dimensions.

The liguistic abilities dimension includes the elements: language vocabulary, characters, profesional work, definitions and meanings, language and structure analysis, poetry, and sentences and paragraphs.

The second dimension includes the writing skills.

The study was concluded with the following results 1- There were statistically significant differences in the mean scores of the deaf and hard of hearing students in the linguistic abilities dimension of the test that could be attributed to the hearing condition in favor of the hard of hearing students.

2- There were statistically significant differences in the mean scores of the deaf and hard of hearing students in the writing abilities dimension of the test that could be attributed to the hearing condition in favor of the hard of hearing students.

3- There were no statistically significant differences in the mean scores of the deaf and hard of hearing students in linguistic and writing abilities dimension of the test that can be attributed to the educational choice variable.