Computer Aids for Teaching and Learning Hearing Impairment Students: Design a Computer Application Program to Help Hearing Impairment Students

This project is designed to use a computer application program as a hearing aid in order to help students who have hearing impairments (HI students) by making an application for learning them. This idea has came to the existence through working as a teacher and it has been concluded within the work on a research project that shall serve both teacher and student, and it shall go ahead to complete the idea of this vital project. The project's idea depends on transferring traditional Arabic fonts to sign language fonts that can be read by students with hearing Impairments. The main objective of this significant project is to facilitate the processes of teaching and learning for HI students and completely communicate with them by using sign language fonts, reading lips through recorded videos, facial expressions through recorded videos and saved pictures, and audio assistant (computer speakers).

MSc in Computer Science, Teacher in the Ministry of Education and a Lecturer in the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, College of Education in the State of Kuwait.