ABSTRACT The researcher sought to find out the communication methods used by teachers of the hearing impaired children. Communication can be affected because a child is unable to hear clearly the spoken message. Persons with hearing impairment can be classified into two main groups that are hard of hearing and deaf. Persons who are hard of hearing have residual hearing and are able to perceive spoken language. Those who al-c deaf are unable to perceive some spoken language or sound around the...
ABSTRACT The topic of this study was ‘Effective use of total communication in teaching language to learners with hearing impairment in Kiambu District Kenya. One of the aims of the study was to find out whether the teachers have adequate training to teach language to learners with hearing impairment. The researcher had targeted forty respondents to fill the questionnaires but twenty five of them did this. The respondents were teachers teaching language to learners with hearing impairment in...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to investigate the techniques which are employed to teach learners with mild intellectual challenges. The researcher also wanted to find out how academic performance of mild intellectually challenged learners in an inclusive setting can be improved. The study was carried out in Yatta zone, Yatta division Kitui district, Eastern province in Kenya. The zone is in the south west of the district (KITUI), which is in eastern part of Kenya. The research was cond...
ABSTRACT The research was carried out in Emgwen division, Nandi central district Kenya with an aim of determining the factors affecting the academic performance of learners with mental deficit in regular schools. All relevant Primary sources were visited in the process of gathering Primary information. A descriptive design was employed and in this case, questionnaires and interview guides were used in the process of data collection. The study findings revealed the following: that the majority...
ABSTRACT The study was intended to conduct an assessment on the awareness of HIV/AIDS issues among the deaf students, a case study of Wakiso School of the deaf. The study was justified by the need to identif~’ and provide mechanisms of operation that can guide the behavior of deaf students to enable the control of HIV/AIDS amongst the deaf. The study explored the information pertaining the background of the study that gave an insight on the global, international, continental, county and loc...
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ABSTRACT The purpose of this study aims at investigating whether there is any relation between drug abuse and student performance in Kenya, Makuyu division secondary schools. The researcher applied survey method that involved qualitative and quantitative approaches of collecting raw data. Thirty questionnaires were sent to thirty respondents who completed and returned all of them to the researcher. The respondents were randomly sampled. Frequency tables, bar graph and pie chart were used to a...
ABSTRACT The study was in challenges hindering performance of learners with learning difficulties in the regular primary schools in Nuu zone Mwingi District. The method used in the study was quantative approach. The data collected was obtained through questionnaires. It was analyzed and interpreted using the mean as the measure for central tendency. Research strategy employed as survey method. The data was obtained from 49 respondents out of the 62 originally in the sample population. These i...
ABSTRACT The study carried out an investigation on the challenges and factors that affect the education of the hearing impaired learners in regular primary schools. The study was carried out from Ngewa zone, located in Kiambu District of Kenya. Available literature indicate that a number of factors ranging from the failure of teachers to recognize and appreciate the learning needs of these learners including the dehumanizing treatment that these learners do get from the hearing learners who a...
ABSTRACT It is important to improve special education assessment and placement for learners with hearing impairment. It should be characterized by its effectiveness in quality and relevance for meeting the challenges of education for our new generations in this new millennium. This study focused on the effectiveness of assessment for placement decisions of learners with hearing impairment in learning institutions in Kajiado North sub- county, Kajiado County, Kenya. The study specifically exa...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the relationship between mass unemployment and academic performance. The study was guided by specific objectives that included; identifying the cause of unemployment, the effects of unemployment on academic performance and the relationship between mass unemployment and academic performance. The study was descriptive and analytical in nature where purposive sampling was used to select population. It employed 50 respondents. Data were analyzed and presented using...
ABSTRACT The impact of free primary education has been manifold and complex. The quality and magnitude of the programme has affected not only the nonnal physically fit pupil, but also the physically challenged learners in inclusive schools as well as the wider community and society. The study adopted a quantitative research design. This enhanced the researcher to obtain a better understanding of the problems and impact of free primary education on the quality of special education for the phy...
ABSTRACT This study was basically intended to evaluate the effect mainstreaming on the academic performance of hearing impaired learners. This is done by integrating learners with hearing impairment with the normal ones. These learners should be given equal opportunities like the normal ones, and should not be stigmatized, discriminated or intimidated in any way by those handling them in the classrooms or the whole school at large. To investigate this researcher used descriptive survey and s...
TABLE OF CONTENT Title of study Declaration .............. . ........... .. ........................................ . .............. . ......... i Approval ........................................................................................................................... .ii Table of content ...................... .. ......................................... ..................... iii CHAPTER ONE 1.0 INTRODUCTION ..................... . .. . ....... . ... ................................
TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION. APPROVAL ii DEDICATION iii AKNOWLEDGEMENT iv TABLE OF CONTENTS v ABSTRACT vii DEFIMTION OF TERMS viii CHPTER ONE 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Back Ground to the Study 1 1.2 Statement of the problem 2 1.3 Purpose of the study 3 1.4 Objectives of the study 4 1.5 Scope of the study 4 1.6 Significance of the study 4 CHAPTER TWO 5 LITERATURE REVIEW 5 2.0 Introduction 5 2.1 Causes of learning problems among learners 5 2.2 Ways of preventing learning disability 6 2.3 Indicator...