ABSTRACT Teachers working with learners with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) often feel ill prepared to manage challenging behaviours presented by them. Quite often, when they are faced with cases of challenging behaviour, they use coping strategies that have led to delinquency and other anti-social behaviours resulting into school dropout among these learners. Education Assessment records in Busia, Kakamega, Vihiga, Bungoma, Nandi, Kisumu and Siaya counties in Western Kenya indicate that ...
ABSTRACT The Government of Kenya made inclusive education a policy requirement in the provision of education to all children. Research has shown that the support given by teachers plays a very important role in curriculum implementation that ensures success in a child`s career. Education Assessment records in Kisumu county indicate that between the year 2012 and 2016, 846 learners who are physically challenged had been assessed and placed in regular schools in Kisumu West, Kisumu Central and ...
ABSTRACT There are contradictory opinions surrounding the causes of mental retardation among parents of children with mental retardation. The causes on one hand may be genetic and on the other may be largely attributed to mystical forces. Previous studies have tried to ascertain the causes of mental retardation in families but they have not been able to establish the actual etiology. However, demographic and psychosocial factors are also important factors worthy of investigation in identifyin...
ABSTRACT The menace of HIV/AIDS is a serious concern globally, especially the rate at which the disease spreads among adolescents with hearing impairment. This has been attributed to poor knowledge of and attitude to the incidence of HIV/AIDS, lack of personal skills coupled with inability of adolescents with hearing impairment to hear, comprehend and translate information about HIV/AIDS to functional use that could have helped them to cope with life challenges. Several studies have been carr...
ABSTRACT Vocational training is important in achieving economic empowerment and independence in persons with intellectual disability. However, pupils with intellectual disability often enter the labour market in Nigeria without receiving vocational training resulting into serious challenges to these pupils. Several existing research on pupils with intellectual disability focused on improving academic performance, while few studies have been done on enhancing their vocational interest using Ex...
ABSTRACT Geometry and on larger scale mathematics was not taught to learners with visual impairment and so they do not write public examinations in the area of mathematics (geometry) in Nigeria. This study is on effect of applied orientation and mobility programme on attitude and achievement in geometry of learners with visual impairment in Abuja and Gindiri. The specific aim of the research is to find out if applied orientation and mobility programme as an adapted teaching strategy will giv...
ABSTRACT The study examined pre-service Teacher Preparation in terms of theoretical knowledge and practical experience towards Inclusive Education in Ghana. This was premised on the argument that teacher preparation should be a key consideration in the implementation of inclusive education. A descriptive survey research design was adopted using a sample of 300 student-teachers randomly selected from 3 Colleges of Education in Ghana. A questionnaire was used to gather the data. The Cronbach’...
ABSTR4.CT This study examined regular school teacher attitude towards inclusive education in the Cape Coast Municipality of Ghana. Precisely, the study investigated teachers' level of conceptualization/understanding of inclusive education, the prime factors responsible for their differing attitude towards inclusive education as well as steps that can be implemented to improve and promote inclusive education in the municipality. One hundred and thirty-two (132) teachers were selected for the s...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions tutors in Colleges of Education have on pre-service teacher preparation for inclusive education in Ghana. A descriptive survey design was adopted using a sample of 235 tutors from 13 Colleges of Education in Ghana. The colleges were drawn from Central, Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions. The lottery method was used to select three regions out of ten and the purposive sampling technique was used to select all the Colleges within th...
ABSTRACT The study sampled 130 elderly listeners comprising 68 males and 72 females, aged between 65 and 74 years and resident in both urban and rural areas of Ibadan metropolis as the participants for the study under a descriptive research design of the ex post facto type. A standardized Tinnitus Research Questionnaire (TRQ) consisting of twenty items with a reliability coefficient of 0.90 was the instrument used for data collection to answer the three research questions and four hypotheses....
Abstract Children fitted with hearing aid, without appropriate placement on aural rehabilitation always find it difficult to benefit maximally from the use of such assistive listening device as well as experiencing difficulty in producing intelligible speech sounds. Therefore, most of them become discouraged and not interested to undergo aural rehabilitation. Thus, this study examined the effect of auditory training (AT) and aided language stimulation (ALS), moderated on onset and degrees of ...
ABSTRACT This study was carried out to assess the effectiveness of orientation and mobility (O&M) training programme for pupils with visual impairment in basic schools in Ghana with particular reference to Akropong and Wa Schools for the Blind in the Eastern and Upper West Regions respectively. The study employed qualitative approaches in getting the relevant data using the descriptive qualitative design to satisfy the purpose and objectives of the study. In all, 18 respondents were selected ...
ABSTRACT The focus of the study was on how the curriculum pursued in special schools in Ghana influence the lives of individuals with intellectual disabilities. There have been great concerns regarding the growth and development of persons with intellectual disabilities in the society. Among many issues, one important determining factor for their development both in and out of school relates to what persons with intellectual disabilities are taught. The study employed 35 teachers and 30 paren...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine the supports teachers provide for pupils with low vision in regular classrooms in the Sekyere South District, Agona. The descriptive survey research design was used for this study. The sample size was 100 respondents. Purposeful sampling technique was used to select the sample size. The instrument employed to collect data was questionnaire. Data was analysed using frequencies, mean and standard deviations. The findings revealed that there were ...
ABSTRACT The study was a descriptive survey that investigated vocational programmes offered in two special schools for individuals with intellectual disability in Ghana, and the transitional processes available in the schools to facilitate smooth movement of such individuals from school to the world of work. The problem was concerned with students who have gone through one vocation or the other and seemed unprepared to meet life demands after school. Forty teachers were sampled to complete a ...