Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social and Political Development (ICOSOP 2016)

Social Adjustment in Adolescents with Hearing Impairment

Authors
Debby A. Daulay, Ade Rahmawati
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Debby A. Daulay
Available Online November 2016.
DOI
10.2991/icosop-16.2017.43How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Social Adjustment, adolescents with hearing impairment
Abstract

The aim of this research is to describe social adjustment in adolescents with hearing impairment. Adolescents with hearing impairment have difficulty in producing sounds or voice of language that ultimately have an impact on the process of communication in everyday life. Based on these conditions, the task of development is to fulfill social adjustment which requires a major effort to avoid some negative impacts. The research uses social adjustment theory from Schneider (1964) which refers to the real appearance through attitudes and behavior, self-adjustment to a group of people, social attitudes, and personal satisfaction. Sampling technique in this research is the cluster random sampling, with 161 adolescents as subject range from 11-21 years old. Data analysis method used is descriptive analysis. The result of the data analysis showed that most of adolescents with hearing impairment in Special-Needs School in City of Medan has their social adjustment in medium category with percentage of 73%. In addition, the results are obtained from the additional form of an overview of social adjustment based on age and gender.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social and Political Development (ICOSOP 2016)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2016
ISBN
10.2991/icosop-16.2017.43
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icosop-16.2017.43How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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