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Students with an Undisclosed Hearing Loss: A Challenge for Academic Access, Progress, and Success?
The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology
The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
It has been suggested that only 8% of postsecondary students in the United States who have a hearing loss have disclosed that hearing loss to their institutions. Consistent with this suggestion, two anonymous surveys of students enrolled in courses with the Open University in the United Kingdom suggested that there were roughly 9,000 students in the Open University itself and over 42,000 students in higher education across the United Kingdom as a whole who had a hearing loss that they had not disclosed to their institutions. These students tended to be older people with a relatively mild hearing loss that did not disrupt their communication with other students or their active engagement with learning activities. The impact of the students' hearing loss upon their approaches to studying seemed to be relatively slight, but it was associated with an increase in the students' perceived academic workload.
Correspondence should be sent to John T. E. Richardson, Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, United Kingdom (e-mail: J.T.E.Richardson{at}open.ac.uk).
Received May 11, 2004; revised May 23, 2004; accepted March 24, 2004
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