Beyond the Silence: Sports Intervention and Enhanced Physical Education for Hearing-Impaired Students

Incorporating instructional videos into the teaching of Arnis, a traditional Filipino martial art, has demonstrated significant potential in enhancing the learning experience and performance of hearing-impaired students in a public school in the division of Rizal. The researcher used a self-made test and scoring rubric to determine the performance of Grade 7 respondents in Arnis. The population for the study consisted of 20 hearing-impaired students. The developed instructional videos for teaching Arnis to Grade Seven (7) students used a copy of the instructional video presentation in the Arnis game as a guide in their instructional materials for the third grading period of their subject. This study utilized a quasi-experimental design, specifically a pre-test and post-test approach, to evaluate the effectiveness of an instructional video on the performance of hearing-impaired students in Physical Education, focusing on the Arnis game and the study's hypothesis testing rejected the null hypothesis, indicating a significant difference in the level of performance in Physical Education of the hearing-impaired students before and after their exposure to the instructional video. These findings strongly advocate for integrating instructional videos in the teaching of Arnis and other physical education subjects, particularly for students with special needs. The study's findings highlight that the utilization of instructional videos in Arnis contributes to the improved performance of hearing-impaired students due to the provision of multisensory experiences, specifically visual learning. Instructional videos are important in teaching physical education and fundamental skills at Arnis.