Efficacy of Story-Telling Multimedia Package in Developing Selected Functional Words among Children with Hearing Impairment

This research examined the effectiveness of a storytelling multimedia package in enhancing selected functional vocabulary among children with hearing impairment. A total of nineteen hearingimpaired students, aged between 5 and 15 years, were intentionally chosen from special schools in the Chennai district. A preliminary assessment was carried out before the intervention to determine initial performance levels. The participants then underwent ten weeks of targeted training utilizing storytelling multimedia, followed by a final test assessment. To assess the importance of the differences noted between the initial test and final test scores, a paired t-test was applied. The findings, deemed statistically significant at the 5% level, suggest that the storytelling multimedia package had a beneficial effect on the selected functional words of the students with hearing impairments.