The present study was conducted to compare the feelings of loneliness, depression and stress in students with hearing-impaired and normal students at secondary schools of Tabriz city. This research was a causal-comparative study. The study population included all male and female students with hearing-impaired and normal students in the academic year of 2013-2014 at the secondary schools of Tabriz city. The study sample (n = 30) was selected by convenience sampling method. To measure variables

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... study, Loneliness Scale of Usher et al (1984), Children Depression Scale of Najarian (1994) and Perceived Stress Scale of Cohen et al (1983) were used, and multi-covariance analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used to analyze of hypotheses. The results showed that there is a significant difference between feelings of loneliness, depression and stress between hearing-impaired students and normal students studying at secondary schools of Tabriz.