scholarly journals Exploring the Potential Usage of Mobile Technologies Among the Hearing-Impaired Students in Learning English as a Second Language (ESL)

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (19) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Nur Ain Mat Nasir ◽  
Harwati Hashim ◽  
Syar Meeze Mohd Rashid ◽  
Melor Md Yunus
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Special Needs Students ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
The Usa ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Hearing Impaired Students

<p>With the emergence of mobile technologies in education, the special needs students are gaining the infinite benefits that could enhance their learning sessions. Numerous studies are conducted on the usage of mobile technologies    among the special needs students including their acceptance towards the technologies, its advantages as well as the obstacles on the utilisation of mobile technologies. However, fewer studies are done on the usage of mobile technologies among the hearing-impaired (HI) students. There is a need for more studies on that as the number of hearing-impaired people are increasing continuously around the globe. Hence, the aims of the study are to explore the hearing-impaired students’ perspectives on the usa of mobile technologies in learning ESL. In-depth interviews are conducted among the selected ten hearing-impaired students from four different secondary schools in Malaysia and the notable finding demonstrates the majority of them believed that mobile technologies assist them in learning. This study provides the insights for the education stakeholders, especially the policy makers and inventors to create the solutions and improvise the features of mobile technologies that are more user-friendly towards the hearing-impaired students.</p>

scholarly journals COVID-TRACK: world and USA SARS-COV-2 testing and COVID-19 tracking

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Emma Zohner ◽  
Jeffrey S. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Time Lags ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Major Health ◽  
Dynamic Representation ◽  
Graphical Displays ◽  
The Usa ◽  
User Friendly

Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major health and socio-economic disruptions worldwide. Accurate investigation of emerging data is crucial to inform policy makers as they construct viral mitigation strategies. Complications such as variable testing rates and time lags in counting cases, hospitalizations and deaths make it challenging to accurately track and identify true infectious surges from available data, and requires a multi-modal approach that simultaneously considers testing, incidence, hospitalizations, and deaths. Although many websites and applications report a subset of these data, none of them provide graphical displays capable of comparing different states or countries on all these measures as well as various useful quantities derived from them. Here we introduce a freely available dynamic representation tool, COVID-TRACK, that allows the user to simultaneously assess time trends in these measures and compare various states or countries, equipping them with a tool to investigate the potential effects of the different mitigation strategies and timelines used by various jurisdictions. Findings COVID-TRACK is a Python based web-application that provides a platform for tracking testing, incidence, hospitalizations, and deaths related to COVID-19 along with various derived quantities. Our application makes the comparison across states in the USA and countries in the world easy to explore, with useful transformation options including per capita, log scale, and/or moving averages. We illustrate its use by assessing various viral trends in the USA and Europe. Conclusion The COVID-TRACK web-application is a user-friendly analytical tool to compare data and trends related to the COVID-19 pandemic across areas in the United States and worldwide. Our tracking tool provides a unique platform where trends can be monitored across geographical areas in the coming months to watch how the pandemic waxes and wanes over time at different locations around the USA and the globe.

scholarly journals NATURE EDUCATION TEACHING TECHNIQUES FOR HEARING IMPAIRED PEOPLE

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 298-301
Author(s):  
Emre Kuzugudenli ◽  
Huseyin Goktas ◽  
Canpolat Kaya ◽  
A.Fatih Kilic
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Human Life ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Nature Education ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Hearing Impaired Students

Nature is one of the most important elements that affect human life positively. Studies conducted up to this time have also revealed the relation of nature to human health and psychology. Nature education activities for people with disabilities come to the fore in recent years. There are various studies in this subject. The aim of the study is to determine this nature education technique for the hearing impaired students. For this purpose, 192 hearing impaired students were given nature education. As a result of the study, interviews were evaluated and nature education techniques for hearing impaired people were determined.

scholarly journals COVID-TRACK: WORLD AND USA SARS-COV-2 TESTING AND COVID-19 TRACKING

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Emma Mariam Zohner ◽  
Jeffrey S Morris
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Time Lags ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Major Health ◽  
Graphical Displays ◽  
The Usa ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Second Wave

Abstract Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major health and socio-economic disruptions worldwide. Accurate investigation of emerging data is crucial to inform policy makers as they construct viral mitigation strategies. Complications such as variable testing rates and time lags in counting cases, hospitalizations and deaths make it challenging to accurately track and identify true infectious surges from available data, and requires a multi-modal approach that simultaneously considers testing, incidence, hospitalizations, and deaths. Although many websites and applications report a subset of these data, none of them provide graphical displays capable of comparing different states or countries on all these measures as well as various useful quantities derived from them. Here we introduce a freely available graphical application that allows the user to simultaneously assess time trends in these measures and compare various states or countries, equipping them with a tool to investigate the potential effects of the different mitigation strategies and timelines used by various jurisdictions. Findings: COVID-TRACK is a Python based web-application that provides a platform for tracking testing, incidence, hospitalizations, and deaths related to COVID-19 along with various derived quantities. Our application makes the comparison across states or countries in the world easy to explore, with useful transformation options including per capita, log scale, and/or moving averages. We illustrate its use by assessing various viral trends in the USA and Europe. Conclusion: The COVID-TRACK web-application is a user-friendly analytical tool to compare data and trends related to the COVID-19 pandemic across areas in the United States and worldwide. Our tracking tool provides a unique platform where trends can be monitored across geographical areas in the coming months to watch how the pandemic waxes and wanes throughout the summer and into a potential second wave in the fall.

scholarly journals Textual construction of the hearing-impaired students’ recount texts: A case of students with special needs in writing to mean

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 526-537
Author(s):  
Wawan Gunawan ◽  
Yanty Wirza ◽  
Nici Azhari Holik
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
Thematic Progression ◽  
Textual Construction ◽  
Textual Description ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Progression Patterns ◽  
Hearing Impaired Students

Being cohesive in writing for the hearing-impaired students is very crucial, serving as an alternative means of expressing ideas without using sign language in communicating with people in general. This study aims to analyze the textual structure of the hearing-impaired students’ recount texts to instantiate how they structure language in communication. This study focused on investigating the choice of theme and thematic progression patterns as an instantiation of making meanings among the hearing-impaired students as a minority group of students with special needs. The data were 36 recount texts of high and low achiever students collected from three educational levels: elementary, junior high, and senior high schools. Following a qualitative approach to data collection and analysis, this study relied on Systemic Functional Linguistics as the main conceptual framework for investigating types of theme and thematic progression patterns, and how these two elements showed the features of writing to mean among the hearing-impaired students. In terms of theme choices, the findings indicate that low achiever hearing-impaired students employed more marked themes with a lack of ability in writing to mean. In terms of thematic progression, theme reiteration pattern was the most frequently employed pattern, indicating a strong intention to the topic. The study informs that the textual description of the hearing-impaired students’ writings could help the teachers understand what and how to teach to improve their writing to mean.

scholarly journals Early reading learning for special needs students: challenges on inclusive primary school during COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1062-1074
Author(s):  
Dahlia Novarianing Asri ◽  
Bambang Eko Hari Cahyono ◽  
Rischa Pramudia Trisnani
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Low Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Early Reading ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Special Needs Students ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Interactive Analysis ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study is meant to describe the types of disability faced by students in inclusive schools and the challenges faced by teachers as well as students in early reading learning for students with special needs in inclusive primary schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research was conducted in 12 inclusive primary schools in Magetan Regency, Indonesia. This research is a descriptive qualitative research in which psychological assessment consisting of intelligence tests CPM, and WISC, documentation, passive observation, and in-depth interviews were used to collect the data. The data were collected from informants, events or activities of student interaction in school, and documents of students’ backgrounds and other related documents. The subjects of this study were 72 special needs students with special needs in 12 inclusive primary schools. The data were then analyzed using an interactive analysis model. The results showed that slow learning is the most common type of disability faced by students with special needs in inclusive elementary schools around Magetan Regency, Indonesia. During the COVID-19 pandemic, early reading learning was conducted through distance learning which encountered many obstacles, such as lack of mobile phone due to the low socioeconomic status of parents.

scholarly journals RUBRIC: AN EVALUATION TOOL TO ASSESS THE SPECIAL NEEDS OF THE HEARING-IMPAIRED STUDENTS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (66) ◽  
pp. 15370-15375
Author(s):  
Lalita Vartak ◽  
Gauri Varade
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Evaluation Tool ◽  
Immediate Feedback ◽  
Play Group ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Hearing Impaired Students

Communication is a basic need to our humanity as social beings. Our relationships are built and maintained through communication, our education and work is also depended on communication (Jagoe, n.d.). Most importantly, hearing connects us to people and enable us to communicate in a way that none of our other senses can achieve. Different formative evaluation tools and techniques can help to fulfil the special needs of the hearing impaired students. . Role play, Group discussion, oral presentation, survey and discussion and poster making and presentation are few of the useful techniques which can be used for formative evaluation of the hearing-impaired students. Role play gives a good plat form to these students to build the skill of communication which also develops their confidence. Bolton in his research paper found that rubrics helped students to understand the detailed points regarding the assignment. Thus, rubric will also be helpful for them to evaluate their own performance and provided immediate feedback on their strengths and weakness (Bolton, 2006). Thus, the teacher can work on the special needs of the hearing impaired students by implementing formative evaluation techniques along with its rubric.

scholarly journals COVID-Track: World and USA SARS-COV-2 Testing and COVID-19 Tracking

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Emma Mariam Zohner ◽  
Jeffrey S Morris
Keyword(s):  
Web Application ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Time Lags ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Major Health ◽  
Graphical Displays ◽  
The Usa ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Second Wave

Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major health and socio-economic disruptions worldwide. Accurate investigation of emerging data is crucial to inform policy makers as they construct viral mitigation strategies. Complications such as variable testing rates and time lags in counting cases, hospitalizations and deaths make it challenging to accurately track and identify true infectious surges from available data, and requires a multi-modal approach that simultaneously considers testing, incidence, hospitalizations, and deaths. Although many websites and applications report a subset of these data, none of them provide graphical displays capable of comparing different states or countries on all these measures as well as various useful quantities derived from them. Here we introduce a freely available graphical application that allows the user to simultaneously assess time trends in these measures and compare various states or countries, equipping them with a tool to investigate the potential effects of the different mitigation strategies and timelines used by various jurisdictions. Findings COVID-TRACK is a Python based web-application that provides a platform for tracking testing, incidence, hospitalizations, and deaths related to COVID-19 along with various derived quantities. Our application makes the comparison across states or countries in the world easy to explore, with useful transformation options including per capita, log scale, and/or moving averages. We illustrate its use by assessing various viral trends in the USA and Europe. Conclusion The COVID-TRACK web-application is a user-friendly analytical tool to compare data and trends related to the COVID-19 pandemic across areas in the United States and worldwide. Our tracking tool provides a unique platform where trends can be monitored across geographical areas in the coming months to watch how the pandemic waxes and wanes throughout the summer and into a potential second wave in the fall.

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