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29ANALYSIS OF THE LEVEL OF AWARENESS OF PROFESSIONALS ABOUT SHADOW THEATER IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPEECH FOR CHILDREN WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENTS Manukyan A.V.1, Grigoryan MA.2
1Manukyan Anahit Vahanovna - Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Lecturer, DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL PEDAGOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY;
2Grigoryan Meri Arsenovna - Master's degree Student, DIRECTION: SPECIAL PEDAGOGY, FACULTY OF SPECIAL AND INCLUSIVE EDUCATION, ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER KHACHATUR ABOVYAN, YEREVAN, REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA
Abstract: the article analyzes level of awareness of professionals about shadow theater in the development of speech for children with hearing impairments.
Keywords: analysis, children with hearing impairment, the development of speech, shadow theater.
It is well known that the theater plays an important role in the process of children's total development. Many authors emphasize the importance of theater not only as an entertainment, but also as a natural revelation, recognition and active activity through which children can develop their knowledge, understanding and creative thinking.
However, from time to time there is need to renovate and develop new, modern and effective teaching tools including shadow theater, the issues of children's learning process with hearing impairment, and the most important one to organized the development more effectively and purposefully. And since in the process of using shadow theater, children are able to gain the meaning of words and expressions, the meanings of subjects more naturally, which in their turn allow to increase the circle of knowledge and speech development, hence it is the essence of the research. The aim of this work is to study the efficiency of the use of the shadow theater in the process of the development of children's speech having hearing impairment.
According to the main purpose of the analyzed research, the following problems need to be solved.
1. To study the role and the meaning of the use of theater in the learning process of children with hearing impairment
2. To study the importance of shadow theater in the development of speech of children with hearing impairment
3. Analyzed the specialists' level of awareness about the efficiency of the shadow theater in the process of development of speech of the children with hearing impairment
We have been doing research for several months about the use of shadow theater, their role and importance with 20 pedagogies in ''Arabkir'' Medical center ICAH and ''Mutual Assistance'' center. The pedagogies have answered the question, how significant the use of theater is in the learning process of children with hearing impairments 3(15%) of them mentioned developing function, 13(65%) the development of speech, 4(20%) has a positive effect.
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Hof them mentioned developing function
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Fig. 1. Indicators of the answers of the specialists to the question " What is the use of theater in the educational process of children with hearing inpairments "?
In this question" What kind of theater do you use to develop the knowledge of the children with hearing impairment''? 15(65%) of the pedagogies being asked have answered puppet theater, 5(35%) of them the role.
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Fig. 2. Indicators of the specialists to the question "What are the types of theaters that you apply to the
process of learning"?
The pedagogies answered the question whether they know about shadow theater 17(75%) gave a positive answer 3(25%) of them negative. We were also interested in whether the shadow theater is used in the process of education. All 20 pedagogies gave a negative answer.
To this question'' Whether the shadow theater can be used during classes''? 11(55%) of the pedagogies gave positive answers, 9 of them found it difficult to answer. We are also interested in whether the use of shadow theater according to pedagogues can be considered effective in the process of speech development 17 of the specialists (85%) gave positive answer 3 of them (15%) found it difficult to answer.
In the end we wanted to be informed What suggestions pedagogies have for organizing and improving the use of shadow theater in the development of speech of children with hearing impairment. And 6 of the pedagogies didn't answer that question, 8 of the others mentioned that they would like to have a rich technical database, literature in the institution to use shadow theater as a new method, 2 of them mentioned the necessity of parental involvement.
Thus, from the analysis of the questionnaires can be concluded that the shadow theater doesn't have enough usage in the process of the development of children's speech having hearing impairments. As for us when organizing the speech development with hearing impairment, it is important to give a big importance to the usage of shadow theater, not only do they increase the effectiveness of educational work significantly, they give opportunity to ensure the rational combination and sequence of the action, prevent tiredness and provide children's working capacity throughout their learning, but also promote children's speech development as a tool for thinking.
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