JPSIM Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine J Pak Soc Intern Med 2709-8729 2710-0804 Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine 10.70302/jpsim.v2i4.2171 jpsim.v2i4.2171 Original Research Communicative Anxiety among Hearing Impaired Students in Inclusive and Segregated Settings Tahir Maria mariatahir2222@gmail.com * Rehman Atia-ur Waseem Humaria Imtiaz Rooma Tahir Sidra Yousaf Nazia Behavioral and speech education services (BASES) Lahore Rashid Latif Medical college Fatima Jinnah Medical University, Lahore Autism Resource Center Lahore *Correspondence: Maria Tahir (mariatahir2222@gmail.com) 14 12 2021 2021 2 4 320 322 28 08 2021 17 10 2021 Copyright © 2021 The Author(s) 2021 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective

To determine the communicative anxiety among hearing impaired students in the inclusive and the segregated settings. Communication is an act of broadcasting contexts from one person or party to other by using mutually acknowledged symbols and linguistic guidelines. Anxiety is actually the sense of being panic and a state of nervousness, commonly usual and directionless, as overreaction to the situation that is just individually perceived

like threatening. Often it is characterized by the stress of the muscles tiredness, weakness and congenital issues by signs and linguistic principles that are generally recognized by one person or group of people.

 Methodology

A cross sectional study was conducted to find communicative anxiety among hearing impaired students in the inclusive and the segregated settings. Convenient sampling technique was used. Sample of 40 hearing impaired students were taken from different inclusive and segregated settings. 20 were taken from inclusive and 20 from segregated setting and statistically evaluated via SPSS version 21.0.

 Results

Results indicated that the students in inclusive settings were more anxious as compare to the students in segregated settings. Further the results indicate that the male students were more anxious as compare to the female students.

 Conclusion

Study concluded that the students in inclusive settings were more anxious .Further the results indicate that the male students were more anxious as compare to the female students. It highlighted how students are effected by the attitudes of other. It provided awareness about the positive and negative aspects of inclusive settings. This study will help in the future intervention based studies to reduce the anxiety level in inclusive settings so that they can gain their full potential in educational settings.

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