Observation on the deaf students' interaction in learning ICT-courses

The existence of computers has proven to be important in human's life, as it offers the means of communication between individuals via Internet. Computers that acts as a learning platform for education is an essential technology; thus the humans' accessibility issues in Web applications are crucial. This includes the Deaf Students. The objective of this research is to observe and study the Deaf Students' levels of ICT knowledge, ICT use, ICT satisfaction, and interest on Computers and ICT and how they interact with ICT in this technology era. The Methodology of this research is Observation. Comparing to the schools that do not have adequate computer equipments (hence without any ICT courses offered), a total of 3 schools executing the Hearing-Impaired Education Program (that offers Computer Graphics Course) from the whole of Malaysia were selected as the research locations. Therefore this brings a total of 6 teachers and 54 students (22 students from Terengganu, 15 students from Negeri Sembilan, and 17 students from Johore) respectively as the research sample. In evaluating observation results, the teachers managed to accomplish each session's learning objectives for each school, as the students had shown positive respond in the Computer class. In contrast with the schools that do not offer any ICT courses (due to the inadequate computer equipments), the observation held in all 3 schools unanimously showed that the Deaf Students have no trouble learning ICT courses, and interacting with the computer equipments, mainly because computers are deaf-friendly. Moreover, computer enhances the students' deaf-creativity in graphical visual of drawing images, web-design, 3D- animation, and multimedia purposes.