摘要:This study investigated creativity Level of Hearing Impaired and Hearing Students
of Federal College of Education in Oyo. Specifically, the study investigated the
creativity level of hearing and hearing-impaired students. Also, a relationship
between gender and onset of hearing loss and students’ creativity level were found
out. A descriptive survey design was adopted for this study. A purposive sampling
technique was used to sample a total of 248 second year students Nigerian
Certification in Education (NCE II) of the School of Education who participated in
the study. A researcher-designed questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 0.76
was used to collect data for the study. The Findings showed that the creativity level
of hearing-impaired students is significantly higher compared to their hearing peer.
It was revealed that female hearing impaired students significantly show a higher
level of creativity than their male peer. Also, post-lingual hearing-impaired
students are significantly higher in creativity level than their pre-lingua peers.
Based on these findings, it was recommended that mainstreaming approach of
providing education services adopted by Federal College of Education in Oyo
should be strengthened and adopted in all institution where hearing and hearingimpaired
attend.