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This study focused on self-perceptions of social relationships of hearing-impaired adolescents. Three sets of perceptions regarding social relat!.onships were investigated: participation, relatedness, and pemeived social competence. The Social Activity Scale was administered to 84 mainstreamed hearing-impaired adolescents in secondary schools and further education programs in England. Correlations indicated that students varied in terms of their social orieWzation toward hearing or hearing-impaired peers. Perceived social competence was positively related to emotional security and to one measure of participation for hearing peers, but was not related to any measures pertaining to hearing-impaired peers. Further, students rated themselves as interacting more frequently with heeang peers than with hearing-impaired ones in the classroom and in outside-of-schoo