IMPACT OF SPECIFIC BALANCE TRAINING ON STATIC BALANCE AND DYNAMIC BALANCE AMONG HEARING IMPAIRED STUDENTS

Physical Education and Sports

The purpose of the study was to find out the Impact of specific balance training on static balance and dynamic balance among hearing impaired students. To achieve the purpose of this study, 24 male hearing impaired students are randomly selected as subjects from the Deaf and Dump School, Tirunelveli District, Tamilnadu, India. Their age ranged from 14 to 15 years. The selected participants were randomly divided into two groups of 12 in each group such as Group‘A’ specific balance training (n=24) and Group ‘B’ acted as control group (n=24). Group ‘A’ underwent specific balance training for five days per week and each session lasted for an hour for six week. Control group was not exposed to any specific training but they were participated in regular activities. The data on static balance and dynamic balance were collected by administering by standardized test item. “Stork Balance Stand Test” was used to measure Static Balance and “Modified Bass Test of Dynamic Balance” was used to measure Dynamic Balance .The pre and post tests data were collected on selected criterion variables prior and immediately after the training program. The pre and post-test scores were statistically examined by the dependent ‘t’ test and Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) for selected variable. It was concluded that there was significant improvement on Static Balance and Dynamic Balance to the effect of specific balance training when compared to the control group among the hearing impaired students.

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