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Human life is one of the supreme creations of God. Human are endowed with the power of thinking which helps them to control the environment. The power of thinking is nurtured by the act of education and the communication in human being can be categorized into oracy and literacy. Literacy is the secondary form of communication, involves reading and writing. Reading requires a substrate that is written matter. To write is to assume that somebody will read what has been written. Reading and writing are extremely complex skill and are interrelated. It means that they share similar underlying process. Both reading and writing build on the knowledge base and the grammatical base of a spoken language. While only humans have the ability to talk with each other using complex language and intellectual capacity. While communicating the reception and expression takes place through various modalities like hearing, speaking, reading and writing. If the modality of hearing is affected the other modalities also get affected. For the children with hearing impairment the primary handicap of hearing impose a secondary handicap of language and speech. Since the reading and writing based on oral language skills, literacy skill also gets affected.

CWHI (Children with hearing Impairment), Literacy, Handicap