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Full Screen- TITLE
- CERTIFICATE
- DECLARATION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF TABLES
- LIST OF FIGURES
- LIST OF APPENDICES
- I. INTRODUCTION
- Gestures & Children
- Indian Scenario
- Need and Significance of the study
- OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
- HYPOTHESES
- OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS
- II. THEORETICAL REVIEW
- SECTION A
- Gesture
- Kerala Scenario
- Table 2.1 Deaf and Dumb population in the state of Kerala according to the 1990-91 census.
- Disabling hearing impairment
- Congenital hearing impairment
- Minimal or Slight Hearing Impairment
- Unilateral hearing impairment
- Moderate Hearing impairment
- Moderately Severe Hearing Impairment
- Severe Hearing Impairment
- Profound Hearing lmpairment
- Table 2.2 Grades of hearing impairments
- Peripheral hearing impairment
- Family environment of the Hearing Impaired
- Educational methods and practices for the Hearing Impaired
- Auditory / oral method
- Manual communication
- Total communication
- Prevention of hearing impairment
- Deaf in Psychiatric setting
- Communication used by hearing impaired children
- Sign languages in different parts of the world
- Advantages of Manual Communnication
- REVIEW OF RELATED STUDIES
- STUDIES RELATED TO GESTURES
- STUDIES RELATED TO HEARING IMPAIRMENT
- TEACHING METHODS
- STUDIES RELATED TO SIGN LANGUAGE
- CONCLUSION
- III. METHODOLOGY
- Inclusion criteria
- Exclusion criteria
- Fig.1 Distribution showing the sex wise break up of three groups
- Fig.2 Distribution showing the Religion wise break up of three groups
- Fig.3 Distribution showing the Area wise break up of three groups
- Fig4 Distribution showing the Age wise break up of three groups
- Fig.5 Distribution showing the Class wise break up of three groups
- Fig.6 Distribution showing the Education wise break up of three groups
- Tools used in the study
- STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES
- Correlational analysis
- Test development
- Gestures recognition test (represetitational gestures)
- Phase ll
- Gestures identification test
- IV. RESULT AND DISCUSSION
- Verification of the Hypothesis
- Detection of conceptual information through representational gestures
- Identification of Gestures
- Gestures checklist
- V. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
- The influence of Socio-demographic variables in the Study
- Hearing impaired group
- Normal Children Group
- Adult group
- Resume of the investigation
- Objectives of the study
- Hypotheses
- Sample
- Statistical Analysis
- Results
- FINDINGS
- Implications
- Limitations of the present investigation and suggestions for further research
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- APPENDICES
- GESTURES RECOGNITION TEST
- GESTURES IDENTIFICATION TEST
- GESTURES CHECK LIST
- GESTURE CHECK LIST FORM