Abstract: Objective To investigate the factors associated with the academic achievement of the students with hearing impairment.Methods 110 undergraduates with hearing impairment were investigated with self-edited questionnaire, and their scores of Gaokao (University Entrance Examinations) were collected as the dependent variable. The correlation between the factors listed in the questionnaire and the scores of Gaokao was analysed. Results The personal factors of students (learning attitudes, motivation, learning experiences, psychological and emotional factors, etc.), the factors of teachers (development of teaching objectives, characters, professional knowledge, etc.), and the social economic factor of family, the action of parents for the education and the early intervention correlated with their academic achievement, while the gender and the degree of hearing loss did not. Conclusion The academic achievement mainly associate with the personal and environmental factors, such as the learning motivation, the early intervention, the teachers, and the parents, but not the body function, in the hearing impaired students.

Key words: hearing impairment, academic achievement, related factors, environment