Challenges Faced By Mentally Challenged Learners In An Inclusives Setting In Mutira Zone Kirinyaga

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ABSTRACT

111e researcher saw that mentally challenged learners in Mutira Zone are not learning well since some regular teachers have negative attitudes towards them. So sue lo this, the reseacher wants to investigate problems facing inclusion of mentally challenged learners in an inclusive setting. The researcher designed questionnaires and piloted to a few teachers within her working station. Later the qeustionnaires were distributed to different subjects in different schools and later collected to analyse data. The researcher considered the number of mentally challenged learners in schools and community. The questionnaires were administered in five schools to twenty subjects. Random sampling was used. After the research, the researcher found that mentally challenged children are not positively viewed by some people in the community. The researchers sa'h that there should be suitable educational resources for these learners for them to improve.  

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