The maul purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the Mandarin Oral-manual System in teaching speech intelligibility, language development, Chinese language ability and speech-reading ability to children with hearing-impairment. The results can be applied to the language skill teaching in special classes and schools for the deaf. Eight first-grade students with hearing-impairment from one class of Taipei Municipal School for the deaf were selected. The subjects were matched by gender, age, intelligence and degree of hearing loss and were randomly distributed to the control group and experimental group. Mandarin Oral-manual System was adopted bx- experimental group and Oral Method was adopted by control group. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Chinese Language Ability Test for the Deaf, Chinese Phonetic Symbols Test, and Language Disorder Scale were adopted to collect pre-and-post experiment and follow-up scores. Using the pre-experiment scores as covariance; the post- experiment scores as variance, covariance analysis was conducted. The results indicated no significant differences between two groups. According to the findings of this study, the Mandarin Manual-oral System has no significant effect on the language teaching of experiment group for sixteen months.