title: Cognitive behaviour modification: a technique for teaching subtraction skills to hearing and deaf/hard-of-hearing elementary students.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of using the Cognitive Behaviour Modification (CBM) technique on the subtraction skills of third grade hearing and deaf/hard-of-hearing students. The results indicated that the CBM deaf/hard-of-hearing students and the CBM and non-CBM hearing students made more progress in solving the subtraction problems than the non-CBM deaf/hard-of-hearing students. The results also showed that there were no significant differences between the CBM deaf/hard-of-hearing and the non-CBM hearing students; and there were no significant differences between the CBM and non-CBM hearing students. The results revealed that the CBM hearing students achieved significantly higher post-test scores than the CBM deaf/hard-of-hearing students. However, the CBM deaf/hard-of-hearing students obtained a significantly higher gain score compared to the CBM and non-CBM hearing students. Implications for teachers and suggestions for future research are discussed in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Education, Department of Special Education, United Arabs Emirates University, Al-Ain.
authors.forename: Y A
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Al-Hilawani
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy; D002648:Child; D003638:Deafness / Q000534:rehabilitation; D019988:Children with Disabilities; D004519:Education, Special; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D019986:Persons with Hearing Disabilities / Q000534:rehabilitation*