The Study on Using Assistive Technologies for Hearing-Impaired Undergraduate Students
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Assistive Technology, Hearing-Impaired Undergraduate Students, Media, Educational ServicesAbstract
The study on using assistive technologies for hearing-impaired undergraduate students aimed to study the conditions of using assistive technology, and to study the relationship between personal characteristics of undergraduate students with hearing impairment and using assistive technology. The study was implemented to 118 students with hearing impairment obtained by purposive sampling, from 17 universities based on the calculated proportion of students with hearing impairment in public higher education institutions of Thailand. The instrument was a Google Form questionnaire about using assistive technology, with Thai sign language video clip for the descriptions. The questionnaire consisted of 2 parts, 1) personal and general data of students with hearing impairment, and 2) data about using assistive technology for students with hearing impairment. The university coordinators were requested to forward the questionnaire to students with hearing impairment for QR Code scanning. The questionnaire was collected in 2021. The statistics used were descriptive statistics and inferential statistics for data description. The hypothesis testing were conducted using ANOVA. The mean difference between groups were compared by multiple comparison. It was found that the highly required items of assistive technology included smartphones, laptops, sign language interpreters, tablets, VDOs for lesson review, and captioning. The moderately required items included desktop computers, notetaker, hearing aids, and scrolling texts. As for personal characteristics that caused the differences of the requirement levels of using assistive technology, they were found as follows. Their years of study caused the difference of using tablets. Fields of study/programs caused the differences of using laptops, tablets and sign language interpreters. Level of hearing caused the differences of using hearing aids and sign language interpreters. Communication methods caused the differences of using hearing aids, tablets, VDOs for lesson review, and sign language interpreters. Schools or previous educational institutions caused the differences of using hearing aids, smartphones, and sign language interpreters. In contrast, the differences of impairment durations and cochlear implant surgery did not cause any differences of the requirement levels of using assistive technology.
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