Developing tamil writing skills through tamil finger spelling among Children with hearing impairment at primary level

Teaching and understanding of the finger spelling at the earlier stage can help the students with hearing impairment to become a better learner. Finger spelling and writing are interrelated. Finger spelling also helps in facilitating English vocabulary. So the present was conducted on “Developing Tamil Writing Skills through Tamil Finger Spelling among Children with Hearing Impairment at Primary level” was conducted special schools in Coimbatore district. The present study was quasi-experimental with one experimental group was employed. Performance of children with hearing impairment in writing skills especially in spelling level was the dependent variable and type of hearing loss is an independent variable. The study was designed on the basis of levels of students. The study was planned to conduct in four phases. Basic Writing Skill for Primary Level (BWSPL) is used to find the level of writing, intervention purpose the investigator developed the Tool for Tamil Finger spelling Package for 203 Tamil Alphabets based on Tamil Finger spelling Package for 30 Tamil Alphabets prepared by the investigator in 2015 and Instructional package on usage of Tamil Alphabets. The result exposed that the simplified activity based method was the best method for assessing children with special needs