Measuring Social Emotional Adjustment of Hearing Impaired Children

Abstract

This research aimed to measure social emotional adjustment of hearing impaired children from both primary and elementary levels in Bahawalpur Division. Social Emotional Assessment Inventory (SEAI) was used to collect data from teachers of randomly selected 256 hearing impaired children studying at primary and elemntary levels. Descriptive statistics and t-test were applied to analyse the data. The findings revealed moderate level of social emotional adjustment among hearing impaired students. As a whole, there was no significant difference in social emotional adjustment of primary and elementry level children and in boys and girls. However, significant difference was observed in sub-scale “emotional adjustment” about male and female hearing imapired students.