총체적 언어교육 프로그램이 청각장애 유아의 언어발달에 미치는 영향

The Effect of Whole Language Program on the Language Development of Hearing Impaired Children

This study focused a successful whole language program for language development of hearing impaired children and examined the effect of the program. The purpose of this study were to evaluated the effects of whole language program on (a) the receptive language development of hearing impaired children, (b) the expressive language development of hearing impaired children and (c) the whole language development of hearing impaired children. For this study, five children with hearing impairment(MA=40 months) were selected as subjects who attending at the Hearing & Speech Clinic of Daegu University in Korea. They had exposed in whole language program for 9 months. The program was consisted of 10 activities(Auditory-playing, story-making, storybook reading, pronunciation, role-playing, count-playing, game, art, singing, field study) which were designed to facilitate the hearing-impaired children's language. The major finding of this study were as follows; First, All subjects had progressed in the area of receptive language development. Second, All subjects had progressed in the area of expressive language development. Particularly, Nouns and Social language had progressed more than others. Third, All Subjects had progressed in whole language development. The positive attitude of the parents with the hearing impaired toward application of the program influenced the children's language performance growth. Finally, Implications of this study for hearing-impaired children's education were discussed in the main context.