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Objectives This study aimed to shed light on the reality of people with hearing impairments and make proposals for current dance education at special schools for students with hearing impairments. Methods For this purpose, the investigator used a range of data including books and papers and materials of Ministry of Health and Welfare, Korea Employment Agency for the Disabled, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Ministry of the Interior and Safety, National Rehabilitation Center and National Statistical Office, as well as the homepages of 21 special schools for people with hearing impairments in South Korea and newspaper articles. Results The study analyzed dance education at special schools for students with hearing impairments and found that dance education was provided at only six of 11 that made public their after-school and free activity curriculums among the 21 special schools. Dance lessons were given as part of a non-regular curriculum and covered Korean dance, broadcast dance, K-pop dance, and line dance equally with jazz dance covered least. Unlike the old approach of dance education involving dance routines and sign language as part of rhythm education in music lessons, these dance lessons gradually expanded the activity of the body toward Korean dance as pure dance and practical dance such as broadcast dance and K-pop dance leading popular vogues. While Korean and broadcast dance was covered in elementary school lessons, K-pop and line dance was covered in elementary, middle, and high school lessons. In the future, there will be a need to expand professional dance teachers and education to more special schools and curriculums. Conclusions Based on these findings, dance education should be boosted for students with hearing impairments with more researches to be conducted for them. These findings imply a need for dance education for people with hearing impairments and propose a direction for a follow-up study to vitalize researches on the subject. The study also made proposals regarding efforts and resources needed for professional special dance education in the future.

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