An Investigation on Community Perception towards the Education of Children with Disabilities in Kachumbala Sub County Bukedea District

ABSTRACT 

This study was guided by the topic; An investigation on Community pmticipation towards the Education of children with disabilities in Kachumbala sub county, Bukedea District. The study was as well guided by the objectives as follow identify the causes of disabilities in the research area, (2) to find out the factors that affect Education of the children with disabilities, (3) to find out the solutions to the identified problems above. The study used both quantitative and qualitative research designs. Quantitative method presented the results in a mathematical form while qualitative method involved a human based judgment. The sample size was I 00 respondents selected from the respondents (mainly from teachers, parish chiefs, local councilors and community leaders). A well designed questionnaire was used to collect data in the simplest language favoring all the pmties in Kachumbala Sub-county. In order to obtain other relevant information, and data collection methods like interview guide. Conclusion; for effective saving of children with disabilities in Kachumbala, carrying out service delivery response to child protection, following up and monitoring, motivation of teachers was crucial to determine the safety of children with disabilities and detetmining the needs of those children to be worked upon in terms of quality improvements. Secondly, there are several effects of disability to the children. Despite the fact that Kachumbala has improved the needs of those children, this has not matched to the quality of the services of other sub-counties. The study recommended that the Sub-county needs to carry out more research based innovation with regm•d to the quality of the services so as they get to the level of other sub-counties. The study recommended that the Sub-county should put forward a list of enabling factors to improve the effectiveness of education of children with disabilities with regm•d to the required results. These factors could include motivation of teachers and provision of scholastic material for the disabled.

TABLE OF CONTENT

DECLARATION ............ .. .. ... ....... ... .. .. ... ...... .. ............ ... ....... . .. . .. .. . .. .. ...... ....... i

APPROVAL ................................................. ....... . ... ..... . .. ............................. ii

DEDICATION .. . .. .. . .. . .......... . .. ... ....... .......... . ... ...... ... .. . .. .. . .. . ... ... .... ...... .... ...... iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT .... . ........... ...................... ... ..... ... ....... ................ ..... .. .. iv

TABLE OF CONTENT .................... .. .. ......... ................. ... .. .. ....... ..................... v

LIST OF TABLES ........ ................... .. .. ...... ... ............................................... .. ........ viii

ABBREVIATIONS .. .... ... ... ......... ... .. ....... ........... .. ....................... . ... .... .. .... ............... ix

ABSTRACT .............................. ............. ........ .. ...... ........................................ X

CHAPTER ONE .............................................................................................. 1

INTRODUCTION ..... .... .. .... ...... ...... ... ... ........................................ .......... ................ l

1.0 Introduction ... ...... .. ............. ...................... ... ...... ... .......... .. .......... .. ............... ........ I

1.1 Back ground of the study ............................................................................ ......... ... I

1.1.1 Historical perspective ... ..... ................ ..... ... ......... .. .... ... ...... .... ..... ..... .................... I

1.1.2 Theoretical perspective ... ... ... ........ .... ... .................................... .. .... ... ...... .... .. ...... 5

1.1.3 Conceptual perspective ................ ................. .. ............. ..... ............ ................... ... 6

1.1.4 Contextual perspective ................................................ .. ......... .......... ............. .. .... 7

1.2 Statement of the problem ......... ..... ..... ............................................................. 7

1.3 The purpose of the study .. .......... .. .. ... .. .. .......... ......... .... .. .. ............................... 7

1.3. 1 Specific objectives ofthe study .. ......... ................... . .. ......... ..... .. ............ .. ... .. ... 7

1.4 The Research Questions ...... .... .............................. .. ....... .. .... ...... . ... ................ 8

1.5 Scope ofthe study .... .... . .. ....... .. .... . ... ........................................ .. ....... ... .... .. .. 8

1.6 The time scope .................................... ....... . ... ..... ................................... .. ... 8

1.8 The Significance of the study ... ... ... ... ........ ....... ...................... ...... .. .... .. .................. 8

I. 9 Definition of operational terms ............................................................................... 9

CHAPTER TWO ................................................................................................... 10

LITERATURE REVIEW ................................................................................ 10

2.0 Introduction .............................................................................................. I 0

2.!Theoretical perspective ................................................................................. I 0

2.2 CONCEPTUAL FRAME WORK .................................................................... II

2.3 Related studies; .......................................................................................... 12

2.3.1. Causes of disability in communities .................................................................... 12

2.3.2. Factors affecting the education of children with disabilities ................................... 12

2.3.3 Community's role in the education of children with disabilities ................................. 14

2.3.4 Strategies to enable Children with disabilities to study .......................................... 16

CHAPTER THREE ................................................................................................ 24

METHODOLOGY .................................................................................................. 24

3.0 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................... 24

3 .I Research design ................................................................................................. 24

3.2 Population of study ............................................................................................. 24

3.3 Sample size and sampling technique .................................................................. 24

3.4 Data collection instruments ............................................................................ 25

3.4.1 Questionnaire .................................................................................................. 25

3.4.2 Interview ....................................................................................................... 25

3 .4.3 Sampling technique ................................................................................... 26

3.4.4 Purposive sampling technique ............................................................................ 26

3.5 Validity and Reliability of the Instruments .......................................................... 26

3.6 Ethical consideration .................................................................................... 26

3.7 Procedure for data collection .......................................................................... 27

3.8 Data analysis ..................................................................................................... 27

3.9 Limitations of the study ........................................................................................ 27

CHAPTER FOUR .......................................................................................... 28

4.0 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 28

4.1 DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS ............................................................... .28

CHAPTER FIVE ........................................................................................... 40

SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS .............. 40

5.0 Introduction ..................................................................................................... .40

5 .I Summary of findings .......................................................................................... 40

5.2 Conclusions ..................................................................................................... .41

5.3 Recommendations ........................................................................................ 41

REFERENCES .............................................................................................. 43

APPENDICES ............................................................................................... 46

APPENDIX I: RESEARCH QUESTIONNAIRE ........................................................... .46