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Rinat Michael1, Haya Maroon Zidan1
1School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 6997801, Israel.
Background:
Self-advocacy is considered a protective factor of psychosocial and academic problems among students with special needs.
Aims:
To asses self-advocacy among students with hearing loss and compare it to that of typical hearing students.
Methods And Procedure:
The current study examined 27 hard of hearing (hh) students and 27 typical hearing students, all studying in mainstream classes. They completed the Hope Scale, a self-esteem scale, a self-efficacy scale, and a measure of self-advocacy statements. Data regarding the hh participants' spoken language abilities were collected through their itinerant teachers.
Outcomes And Results:
HH students reported lower levels of self-esteem than the typical hearing students. Emotional self-efficacy was positively correlated with age among the hh students, and hope and effort were negatively correlated with age among typical hearing students. Some significant positive correlations emerged among the hh participants between their syntactic and pragmatic abilities and several self-advocacy indicators.
Conclusions And Implications:
Interventions aimed at enhancing self-advocacy among hh students should focus on intensifying their self-esteem as well as their syntactic and pragmatic abilities.
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