Transitional Skills Needed for the Hearing Impaired Students for the Transition from School to University in Jordan

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the transitional skills necessary for the hearing impaired for the transition from school to university in Jordan, as well as to see the effect of variables such as gender, specialty, years of enrollment, non-transitional skills necessary for the transition from school to University in Jordan. The study sample consisted of (80) male and female students, from public and private universities in Jordan in Amman Governorate and Al Balqa, in order to collect the data, the researcher has built a study tool which consisted of 46 items distributed among three dimensions. Then the tool was applied to the sample.
The results showed that the academic skills ranked first with the highest mean of (3.22), followed by communication skills, and social skills with a mean of (2.85), the mean for the total score was (2.98). The results showed no statistically significant differences attributed to gender on the communication skills dimension, and results also showed a statistically significant differences due to the type of college variable and the difference was in favor of humanity colleges at all dimensions, the results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences on years of university enrollment variable at all dimensions and on the total score.