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Students with Special Educational Needs who have hearing impairments face challenges in communicating using sign language. They encounter various issues such as cognitive, intellectual, emotional, social, and behavioral developmental challenges due to the communication problems they often experience. Hearing-impaired students also find it difficult to communicate with family members, especially parents. This study was conducted to identify the level of skill and frequency of parents' communication using sign language with hearing-impaired children. The research instrument was a questionnaire aimed at obtaining quantitative data. Descriptive analysis was used to determine the minimum, standard deviation, frequency, and percentage values. This research involves 50 respondents, comprising parents of students with HI students in Kuala Lumpur. The study findings indicate that the skill level and frequency of sign language communication by parents are at a moderate level. Efforts need to be intensified so that parents can use sign language at an excellent level for the future of hearing-impaired students.
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