2018 Volume 57 Pages 112-122
This paper reviews educational psychological studies on special needs education that were conducted from July 2016 to June 2017. As a result of a numerical analysis of the published papers, it became apparent that the number of research studies in this field in recent years has been decreasing. Next, the studies focusing on education for children with hearing impairment are reviewed. As a result, it is suggested that the method of utilizing speech at the early stage of development be reevaluated for learning spoken language. Studies on the cognitive development of children with hearing impairment and the psychology of families with deaf people are also reviewed, and future prospects based on these research results are discussed.
