Using the interactive infographic style without voice commentary and its impact on developing visual thinking skills among deaf students

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Arab East College for Postgraduate Studies - Arab East Colleges - Riyadh

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The research aimed of this is to measure the effect of using an interactive infographic style unaccompanied by audio commentary on developing visual thinking skills for deaf students. regarding the research tool, the researcher used a skill test connected to visual thinking skills. as to the research sample, they were chosen randomly from female students at 1st intermediate level at (two hundred and nine school and middle education office), and the sample consisted of (10) female students. .. after applying the statistical treatments, the results showed that there was a statistically significant difference at the level of significance between the mean scores of the experimental group in the two applications, pre and post, to test visual thinking skills comes from the main effect of using interactive infographic mode without audio commentary, which is accompanied by a number of reinforcement tools that fit the characteristics of the target sample using explanatory videos in sign language. the research recommends the importance of using the interactive infographic style without audio commentary so that learners, especially those with special needs, can follow the path of hearing impairment, in order to keep in touch with the current progress in all fields, especially in the field of infographics, and to pay attention to the production of interactive educational videos that take into account the needs, characteristics and capabilities of students with hearing disabilities.

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