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The study aimed to identify the challenges facing students with hearing impairment in inclusion programs in Hail city from teachers' perspectives, highlighting the differences between the responses of teachers of students with hearing impairment and  those of general education regarding such challenges attributed to  gender, experience, study major and level variables. The descriptive analytical approach was adopted. The study sample iconsisted of (211) teachers, and a questionnaire was used for data collection. The results showed that there were challenges facing students with hearing imapirment in the inclusion programs from the point of view of teachers. The challenges were ordered as follows:  educational challenges facing students with hearing impairment, challenges related to the acceptance of sound hearing students to those with hearing imparment, challenges pertaining to coopertation between general education teachers and those of hearing imapired students, and challenges related to school adminstration. It was also revealed that there were no statistically significant differences in the responses of teachers of hearing imapaired students and general education instructors on the challenges attributed to  gender, experience, major and study level variables.