Integration of deaf students into high education

Integration process of people with disabilities has become very important problem. The integration of hearing impaired students into high education has become very common. Nevertheless this process has never been evaluated. The aim of this work is to study the literature that displays all the processes of integration especially regarding people with hearing loss. The survey has been made regarding the integration of people with hearing loss. During it three target groups have been questioned: hearing impaired students, professors and sign language interpreters. This survey evaluated the integration process and detected next problems: • the quality of sing language interpreting is low; • there are not enough dividable materials for these students; • hearing students and professors are not ready to communicate with these students; • not enough visual means are used in teaching process. The liquidation of these problems might increase the integration process of hearing impaired students into high education.Švietimo akademijaVytauto Didžiojo universiteta