The purpose of this study was to compare the narrative comprehension ability of children without hearing
impairment and hearing impairment children with using dynamic assessment which made it possible to
assess children's narrative comprehension ability independent of decoding skill. This study sought to
provide useful information for developing language intervention program for hearing impairment children.
Towards this end, the subjects were 9 years, third-graders in elementary school. The subjects were divided
into two groups, i.e., those without hearing impairment (10 students), those with hearing loss (10 students).
The narrative comprehension task was used as a research method with hearing students, and both Narrative
comprehension task and sentence understanding task were used for hearing impairment students.
In comparing the narrative comprehension ability of the two groups, results showed that those without
hearing impairment had significantly higher scores than those with hearing impairment(F=35.094, p<.001).
Also, for the students with hearing impairment, there were significant correlations between narrative
comprehension ability and sentence understanding task(p<.01).
This result suggested that it is important to develop language intervention program to support hearing
impairment students' narrative comprehension ability which significantly influence academic achievement.