TITLE:
The Effectiveness of an Intervention Program for the Development of Social and Emotional Capacities of Children with a Hearing Impairment
AUTHORS:
Emna Sammari, Abdelmajid Naceur
KEYWORDS:
Hearing Impairment, Social Capacities, Emotional Capacities, Intervention Program
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.13 No.7,
July
20,
2022
ABSTRACT: The study aimed to identify the extent of effectiveness of an intervention program based on the psycho-educational approach and including various activities of Arabic language and mathematics and their use to develop the social and emotional capacities of a sample of children with a hearing disability, amounting to (20) children, the sample was intentionally divided equally into two groups, one experimental and one control. The participants in the experimental group followed the activities of the intervention program for the improvement of the level of emotional sensitivity, social control, social sensitivity, over (24) sessions, for a period of eight weeks. While participants in the control group were not exposed to any activities, participants in both groups completed a social capacities test before and after the program. Statistical results indicated the effectiveness of the intervention program activities in developing the social and emotional capacities of children with hearing impairment.