E-learning is a burden for the deaf and hard of hearing.

ABSTRACT: When considering deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) population, research recognizes that fatigue due to communication challenges and multi-focal attention allocation is a significant concern. Given the putative heightened demands of distance learning on deaf and hard of hearing students, we investigate how an online environment might differently affect deaf and hard of hearing participants, compared to hearing participants, Portuguese Sign Language (PSL) users and non-users. Our findings show that the deaf and hard of hearing group present higher values in the post-task fatigue rates with significant differences from the hearing group (non-PSL users). Furthermore, our results revealed an association between post-task fatigue rates and lower performance scores for the deaf and hard of hearing g

SUBMITTER: Rodrigues FM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9166930 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature