Impact of School Based Parental Involvement in developing literacy of children with hearing Impairment in Primary School

Abstract

Parental involvement in schools can take place in a range of ways. Among these are (a) volunteering directly in the classroom, (b) Participating in children's activities at school and (c) participating in a parent teacher meeting. The present study was experimental study to observe the effectiveness of school based parental involvement in literacy development of children with hearing impairment of class 1st of primary school at Sitapur District, Uttar Pradesh. The finding of the study revealed that there was a significant improvement in the performance of experimental group where the parents actively participated in school compared with the control group where parents were not involved in literacy development. This proves the involvement of parents in literacy development of children with hearing impairment is very important.