Abstract
ICT (Information and Communication Technology) was used to develop a distance support program website for hearing impaired children and their families. This website was assessed by the parents of hearing impaired children and Speech Language Hearing Therapists (ST) who were involved with education or audiology of hearing impaired children. The evaluators accessed the website to assess the understandability of each of the contents of the website, usability of downloads and links, and usefulness of the movie contents, parental guidance, and the distance support program overall. The results showed that the parents of the hearing impaired children provided answers in the affirmative for 48 out of the 53 questions and the STs provided answers in the affirmative for 47 out of the 53 questions. Although the users need to have some knowledge of the ICTs in order to use this website and it is necessary to consider the effectiveness of this website along with normal face-to-face individual language therapy, our results suggested that this website can be useful to support hearing impaired children and their parents who live in remote places or abroad.
