Effective of cued Speech on Improving the Accuracy and Comprehension of reading in Students with hearing loss of First grade

Hearing sensation is necessary for a child to acquire speech and language. Reading is one of the essential skills one should acquire in childhood. Previous studies have shown that children with hearing loss have lower reading skills as compared with the hearing children. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of cued speech training on improving the reading of the first grade hearing impaired students in elementary schools.
In the current quasi-experimental study, 10 children with profound hearing impaired and 9 hearing children comprised the experimental and control groups, respectively. For data collection, reading diagnostic test was used. At first, the data as the baseline was collected. Then, the experimental group received 30 sessions each lasting for about 45 minutes. Data was analyzed using repeated measures with SPSS, version 22.
The findings showed that the educational method had a positive effect on the accuracy (p=0/01) but did not have any effect on reading comprehension (p=0/096).
According to the results, training cued speech to first-grade students with profound hearing loss can improve their reading skills.