الفهرس 
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Abstract
Background: Hearing loss affects not only the individual but also the entire family and society generally. Family awareness toward the disease and its implications will reduce their feeling of anxiety, guilt. Aim: Recognize family caregiver’s adjustment for their children with hearing impairment. Design: A descriptive analytical research was used. Setting: “Hearing and Speech Institute” at Embaba district. Sample: Convenient sample of (60) child with hearing impairment. Tools for data collection: Data were collected through the following tools “Family caregiver’s adjustment questionnaire for children with hearing impairment” it consists of fifth parts; Socio-demographic characteristics for family caregiver, Family caregivers’ knowledge, reported practices, and An adjustment scale to assess family caregivers’ adjustment toward caring for the children with hearing impairment. Results: the study revealed that most of the family caregivers are female and mothers and have acceptable score level of knowledge, and most of the practices (98.3%) have done. Moreover, most of the practices (98.3%) have done by caregivers. Besides, the majority of caregivers (98.3%) have a high adjustment. Conclusion: there was negative significant correlation between knowledge and practice; there was positive non-significant correlation between knowledge and adjustment, and there was almost no correlation between practice and adjustment. There was non-significant correlation between education level for caregiver and practice, adjustment, and knowledge. Recommendation: Continuous supervision for maternal and neonatal care by the Ministry of Health and Periodic Hearing Screening for Early Identification should be done for children before 6 months of age.
Keywords: Hearing impairment, family caregiver’s, adjustment.