Development and Validation of Sign Language-based and Contextualized Kindergarten Module for Children with Hearing Impairment
Sammy Boy Guzman
Discipline: creative writing
Abstract:
This study aimed to develop and validate a sign language-based and
contextualized kindergarten module for children with hearing impairment. There is a need to develop and contextualize a module in
order to cater the unmet needs of students with hearing impairment. The developed module includes a teaching guide for parents,
for them to become more effective co-facilitators of learning. The
distinctive feature of this module is that, the sign language interpretations are with pictures and texts. The pictures vividly show the
step-by-step procedure on how to sign the specific word. The pictures are supported by the comprehensive explanation on how to
sign the words. This study utilized the Research and Development
(R & D) research method to systematically design, develop and evaluate the instructional material. The participants of this study are
eleven (11) students with hearing impairment and eleven (11) parents of students with hearing impairment. The respondents and
served as expert-validators are master teacher, kindergarten
teacher, and SPED teacher. It employed a purposive sampling technique; it purposely selected a population related to children with
hearing impairment. To analyze the qualitative data, it was imported to MAXQDA software with the use of Horizontalization
method by Moustakas. For statistical treatment of the descriptive
data, researchers used the PSPP software. The study found that the
parents’ ideal module for children with hearing impairment has five
emerging themes, such as 1) sign language medium of instruction,
2) disability consideration, 3) media consideration, 4) level of difficulty, and 5) technical design. Expert-validators assessed that the
validity of contextualized kindergarten module is highly acceptable
among the dimensions of: content, format and language, presentation, and usefulness. Effectiveness of the contextualized module as
perceived by the parents yielded a total of 96.36% positive responses.
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