AN ASSESSMENT OF MEASURED AND SELF-PERCEIVED FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME PER SECOND AND PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW LITER PER MINUTE AMONG HEARING AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN

The present situation people with hearing and visual impairment need more support in their physical and psychosocial improvement. Child with visual and hearing impairment is not only face a lot of individual hardships during his premature developing years but also face a many problems and challenges to the responsible adults in his life. The intention of the current examination was to measure the lung capacity of hearing and visually impaired special school children of Karnataka state. Further the level of perception on forced expiratory volume per second and peak expiratory flow volume per minute was also correlated with their actual status. The present study was conducted on four hundred and fourteen (N=414) hearing and visually impaired special school children selected through purposive random sampling technique. The study included adolescents with hearing impairment one hundred and seventy one (N=171) and vision impairment two hundred and forty three (N=243) in male group. Complete subjects were residents of special schools within Karnataka state. Their age ranged between 13 to 18 years. The forced expiratory volume per second and peak expiratory flow volume per minute measurement was done by following the standard procedure. The level of perception on forced expiratory volume per second and peak expiratory flow volume per minute of hearing and visually impaired school children was done using a 3 point likert scale. The forced expiratory volume per second of 13 to 14 years with 2.01 ± 0.48; 2.39 ± 0.46 in 15 to 16 years; and 2.58 ± 0.52 in 17 to 18 years. The peak expiratory flow volume per minute was 290.36 ± 68.99 in 13 to 14 years; 326.95 ± 75.09 in 15 to 16 years; and 352.18 ± 87.00 in 17 to 18 years. On the basis of the findings of the current examination it is concluded that the hearing and visually impaired school going children poor forced expiratory volume per second and peak expiratory flow volume per minute is an indication of lower lung capacity level. Since hearing and visually impaired school going children require to perform their everyday physical exercise at their own, it is imperative to have enough lung capacity. Further, the hearing and visually impaired school children under examination are unable to significantly weak positive linear relationship their lung capacity precisely