The Analysis of the Results of Instructor's Needs Assessment of Children with Hearing Impaired for the Purpose of Planning and Implementation of Training Rehabilitation programs

The purpose of the current research was to analyze the results of the needs assessment of training/rehabilitation program for hearing impaired children from the teacher's point of view in order to design and develop a rehabilitation training program with an auditory/verbal trait (AVT). In this descriptive study, 26 teachers of children under the age of 4 from the state of Khorasan Razavi using the census method were selected. The data were gathered using a researcher-made questionnaire. The results indicated that teachers felt the need in situations such as parent's participation in the curriculum planning, the appropriateness of the program with the children's special needs, setting clear and suitable goals, using new methods and approaches and the use of hearing aids. The weakest points in the current program are the lack of coherence in the program, the lack of paying attention to the goals, the lack of emphasis on the clarity of the speech and the correction of the student's pronunciation, the teacher's lack of enough experiences and their lack of awareness with AVT program. Setting up appropriate training classes is one of the most important needs of the teachers and creating training courses while getting to know AVT, having classes to increase parent's awareness, in the teacher's opinions, were the factors for getting rid of the problems in this program. Taking into account these findings, designing and planning an appropriate curriculum requires paying attention to the needs of the teachers and focusing on getting rid of the weaknesses of the current program.