Introduction. The motricity includes fi tness, co-ordination and extensive capabilities. Co-ordination capabilities result from information processes, which occur in our body, that is from central nervous system function and sending specifi c information from it to the locomotor system. Hearing loss can affect – because of the integration with the nervous system and semicircular channels – also motor capabilities (balance, speed and precision of movements). Also the fact, that the person does not receive any sound signals from the environment, makes that hearing-impaired movements too sudden and not co-ordinated. The aim of this study is to identify the differences in co-ordination capabilities between the chosen group of girls and boys with hearing organ dysfunction and their normal peers. Establishing the differences level can be helpful in motor capabilities development in this group of children and the same in physical education programming. Authors hypothetically assumed that hearing-impaired children are distinguished by lower level of the co-ordination capabilities than the normal ones, and that girls differ from boys in the co-ordination capabilities. The research was carried out on 11-13-year-old children. It involved 120 people in total. The tests described by Raczek (2003) have been used. The level of seven co-ordination capabilities − kinaesthetic differentiation, spatial orientation, speed of responses, balance, rhythmisation, movements’ coupling and movements’ frequency − have been determined. Hearing-impaired girls and boys have similar level of co-ordination capabilities as their normal peers. Hearing-impaired girls and boys differ from each other only in kinaesthetic differentiation level and movements’ adaptation.

Aimed and organised physical activity can be the stimulating factor for the co-ordination capabilities’ development. Contemporary therapy and pedagogic methods enable this kind of work with hearing-impaired children.

Słowa kluczowe: dysfunckja słuchu, zdolności koordynacyjne, dziewczęta, chłopcy, hearing organ dysfunction, co-ordination abilities, boys, girls