The effect of communication skills training through multimedia on the self-esteem of female students with hearing loss

The current study aims to peruse the effectiveness of teaching communicative skills through multimedia on the self-esteem of girl students with hearing problem. The research methodology is of semi empirical type and statistical population encompassed the whole girl students with hearing problem at sixth grade in Tehran city. With sampling method, thirty students were selected and randomly were divided into two groups: control and experiment. The tool for collecting data in this study was Kupper smith's self-esteem questionnaire. This scale has fifty eight questions in which fifty questions are evaluating the self-esteem and eight questions are lie detectors. Totally the fifty questions are divided into four subscales naming: total self-esteem, social self-esteem, family self-esteem and educational self-esteem. the grades are one and zero and the answers are whether yes or no. the experiment group was trained through multimedia software which is built by the researcher , and the control group was kept away from the independent variable . For checking the changes, first a pre-test was conducted on both groups. After the pre-test was conducted, the experiment group was exposed to independent variable and post test was conducted on both groups. Statistical approaches in two levels of descriptive (central and dispersal indexes) and deductive ( covariance' s single variable analysis )were used for analyzing the research's data. Generally the results showed that student's self esteem increased by teaching communicative skills by using multimedia.