LANGUAGE ACQUISITION BY HEARING OFFSPRINGS HAVING PARENTS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT: A SELF-REPORTED SURVEY

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Dr. Samina Ashraf, Dr. Muhammad Irfan Arif, Sayyeda Rabia Basri

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The purpose of the study was to identify the efforts of offspring of deaf and hard of hearing D/HH parents in learning verbal and sign language.The study was a descriptive type of research. The population of the study was hearing children of D/HHparents. The sample of the study consisted of 51 hearing children of D/HH parents selected through the purposive sampling technique. The researcher developed a structured questionnaire comprised of 20 items as an instrument of the study for the collection of data.  The reliability of the instrument is measured by applying Cronbach alpha (.78). The content validity is estimated through experts' opinions.

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