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Developing a rehabilitation program based on working memory and its effectiveness on reading comprehension in children with hearing impairment
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Sedighe Rostami *1   , Hamid Alizadeh1 , Saeed Rezayi1 , Fatemeh Nikkho1 , Ghorban Hemmatialamdarloo1 |
| 1- Allameh Tabatabaei University |
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Objective: Hearing impairment significantly affects thinking and learning. Children with hearing impairment experience academic difficulties, where reading disorder is particularly prevalent among them. Reading skills include coordination between visual and written forms and requires skills such as phonological awareness, vocabulary knowledge and letter recognition. Despite technological advancement in cochlear implants and sophisticated hearing aids, reading comprehension skills in children with hearing impairment remain weaker than their hearing peers. Therefore, the present study aimed to develop a working memory-based intervention program and examine its effectiveness on reading comprehension skills in students with hearing impairment. Method: This research was an experiment with a pre-test and post-test and follow-up framework with a control group. Participants were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The statistical population of the research included all children aged 8-13 with hearing impairment (both boys and girls) using hearing aids with a hearing range of 59-70 dB in Shiraz City. The sampling method was convenience sampling. Data were collected using a face reading test. The experimental group received a working memory-based rehabilitation intervention, while the control group received no intervention. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics including mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics including two-way mixed multivariate analysis of variance (inter-group-intra-group). Results: The findings indicated that working memory training significantly improved reading performance and comprehension in students with hearing impairment (p<.001). Conclusion: Based on the findings, working memory training can be utilized as an intervention method to improve reading perform
ance and memory capacity in students with hearing impairment. |
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| Keywords: comprehension, hearing impairment, reading, working memory |
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Received: 2023/03/3 | Accepted: 2026/06/23 | Published: 2026/06/5
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