Development assistive technology for students with hearing impairments

Abstract

Lip reading is a technique of understanding speech by visually interpreting the movements of the lip when normal sound is not avalaible. Also as a primary method for individuals with hearing impairment to understand others speech. Lip reading requires constant attention to obtain complete information. The fact is that students with hearing impairments have difficulty to doing this in the class, because they have to do other activities such as writing or asking a friend. So it cause some of the information conveyed by the lecturer is not to be captured. Considering that technology plays an important role in clouded communication and information needs for individuals with hearing impairment. It is necessary to develop assistive technology that can help students with hearing impairment to more easily receive material delivered by lecturers by converting sound to text form in real time that can be accessed and stored by student cellphones. This research involved 2 programmers, 3 validators, 2 lecturers and 3 students with hearing impairment. Based on the results of validation and testing, it shows that this assistive technology can be used easily for lecturers and help students to understand the material more easily.