Cultural Beliefs and Practices and Their Impact On the Education of Children with Special Needs in Municipality Division, Nyeri South District Kenya

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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

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

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

AK.NOWLEDGEMENT .......................................................................................................... iv

TABLE OF CONTENTS .......................................................................................................... v

LIST OF TABLES ................................................................................................................... vii

ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................................... viii

CHAPTER THREE ................................................................................................................... 9

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY .............................................................................................. 9

3.0. Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 9

3 .1. Research Design ................................................................................................................. 9

3.2. Organization of the study ................................................................................................... 9

3.2.1. Study area ........................................................................................................................ 9

3.2.2 Study population ............................................................................................................... 9

3.2.3. Sample size ...................................................................................................................... 9

3.2.4. Sampling technique ......................................................................................................... 9

3 .3. Data collection .................................................................................................................. 10

3.3.2 Reliability of instruments ............................................................................................... 10

3.4. Data collection procedure ................................................................................................. 10

3.5. Data analysis ..................................................................................................................... 10

CHAPTERFOUR ................................................................................................................... 12

PRESENTATION, INTERPRETATION AND DISCUSSION OF THE FINDINGS ........... 12

4.0 ............................................................................................................................ Introduction 12

4.1 ........................................................................ Demographic Characteristics of Respondents 12

4.1.1 Sex of Respondents ........................................................................................................ 12

4.2 The Attitudes of the community to the retarded People .................................................... 13

4.2.1 Handicapped children are being ofno use to the society ............................................... 13

4.2.2 Handicapped people being hidden away from the society ............................................. 15

4.2.3 Parents not wasting money on handicapped children's school fees ............................... 17

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Table VI: Response on whether Parents do not waste money on retarded

children's school fees ........................................................................... 1 7

4.3 Community Tolerance and Acceptance of the handicapped children ............................... 18

4.3. 1 Handicapped children people being integrated in all the normal routine of all the

society ...................................................................................................................................... 18

4.3.2 Handicapped children are helped when ever possible during the course of their

studies at school ....................................................................................................................... 19

4.3.4 Pupils who are handicapped children are not mistreated at school by their fellow

normal students ........................................................................................................................ 20

CHAPTER FIVE ..................................................................................................................... 21

SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ........................................... 21

5.0lntroduction ........................................................................................................................ 21

5.1 Summary ............................................................................................................................. 21

5.2Conclusion .......................................................................................................................... 21

5.3 Recommendations ............................................................................................................. 22

REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................ 23

APPENDIX I: TRANSMIT AL LETTER ............................................................................... 25

APPENDIX II: QUESTIONNAIRE FOR TEACHERS ......................................................... 26