ABSTRACT The study aimed at finding out whether teachers can identify the causes of reading disabilities in learners. It intended to establish whether teachers have adequate knowledge of identifying learners with reading disabilities, determine the proportion of non-readers in class five. It also investigated the existing methods and materials teachers use in teaching and remediating reading including the difficulties teachers encounter when teaching. Finally, the study aimed at finding out t...
ABSTRACT This study was intended to establish the patterns of pronunciation and writing for Somali Braille because a Standard Somali Braille does not exist. It examined, identified and hypothesized the similarity of speech sounds, grapheme symbols and Braille codes, based on experiment and a 3x2 factorial design. The independent variables were Braille codes and Somali print, while the dependent variable was Somali Braille. The population were students, who were blind (112) and low vision...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out the relationship between utilization of assistive hearing technology and academic achievement of learners with hearing impairment. Studies indicate that learners with hearing impairment lack assistive hearing devices and also achieve lowly academically not only in Kenya but in the whole of Africa continent. In Kenya, academic achievement of learners with hearing impairment tend to trail behind that of their hearing counterparts. When it comes...
ABSTRACT The study investigated challenges of learning Kiswahili amongst pupils with hearing impairment. This was driven by the fact that Kiswahili is important, not only as a national and official language in Kenya, but as a compulsory subject in primary and secondary school curricula. There had been an outcry from various stakeholders that learners performed poorly in Kiswahili in both local and national examinations. Some stakeholders had even conceded that Kiswahili overburdened learners...
ABSTRACT This study sought to establish communication disability and their effects on educational performance of learners in mainstreamed public primary schools in Kericho County, Kenya. The study was guided by five objectives, these are to find out how learners with communication disability are mainstreamed in public primary schools, school’s policies on mainstreamed learners’ with communication disability in public primary schools, establish the teachers’ attitudes towards mainstreame...
ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to establish the effectiveness of teaching methods for acquisition of daily living skills by learners with mental retardation. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. Dependent variable for this study was acquisition of daily-living skills while independent variables were methods of teaching, how teachers applied the methods; challenges encountered and teaching/learning materials used by teachers. The study used purposive sampling to select the distri...
ABSTRACT The study investigated challenges of learning Kiswahili amongst pupils with hearing impairment. This was driven by the fact that Kiswahili is important, not only as a national and official language in Kenya, but as a compulsory subject in primary and secondary school curricula. There had been an outcry from various stakeholders that learners performed poorly in Kiswahili in both local and national examinations. Some stakeholders had even conceded that Kiswahili overburdened learners ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to investigate factors that influence implementation of KIEP programmes for primary school pupils with visual impairments. Two schools were selected out of the five schools implementing integrated programmes in Nairobi and Kitui counties due to large population of pupils with visual impairments in these schools from which a sample was drawn. These schools were Kilimani primary school in Nairobi County and Muslim primary school in Kitui County. The study ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that contribute to underachievement and the role of varied strategies in reversing underachievement among gifted secondary school students. The study was carried out in Kiambu County because of its continued poor performance in KCSE examinations. The study was inspired by the researcher‘s experience in teaching. Questions of the role of the teacher in shaping the life of the learner are prominent: how are underachieving gifted l...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to investigate the Influence of Orientation and Mobility Training (OMT) on Social Integration (SI) of Adults with Visual Impairments (VI) in Kano State. The study sought to achieve the following objectives: influence of OMT on Self-Esteem; Self-reliance; Community Participation and Economic participation of adults with VI aged 25 to 45. Havighurst‟s Developmental Task Theory was used to guide the study. The study used descriptive survey research design...
ABSTRACT This study analyzed the challenges trainees with Visual Impairment encounter in learning Orientation and Mobility at Masaka Rehabilitation Center for the Blind, Kigali, Rwanda. Masaka rehabilitation center is the only existing center in Rwanda which trains people with Visual Impairment in O and M. In fact, the loss of sight has a negative impact on Orientation and Mobility since this is the main sense organ which assist people in their movement. Specific objectives of the study sough...
ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to assess the curriculum barriers to teaching orientation and mobility in selected Schools for Learners with Visual Impairments in Kenya. The objectives of the study were to explore why orientation and mobility was not being included in the school time table, the administrative support available, teacher-pupil ratio, the perceptions of teachers and learners towards the teaching of orientation and mobility. The ecological systems theory developed by Urie B...
ABSTRACT The central problem of this study was that, despite the critical role of reading in promoting education of pupils with hearing impairments, their performance in reading remained low. The effect of embossed picture technique in teaching reading to the pupils with hearing impairments had not been addressed by the Ministry of education. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to find out the effect of embossed picture technique when used in teaching reading to the pupils with hearing ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to determine the strategies of early intervention on academic performance of learners with physical disabilities in special primary and secondary schools in Nyanza and Huye Districts in Southern Province of Rwanda. The study was guided by social learning theory. Descriptive survey researchwas used to find out teacher professional education level in providing EI in SNE, to determine EI strategies used by teachers at early childhood level and to identify ...
ABSTRACT Audiological assessment forms the basis for habilitation and rehabilitation for children and persons with hearing impairment in enabling them to become more productive to the society and lead an independent life. It is only through effective audiological assessment that their hearing acuity can be ascertained and early intervention initiated. This study evaluated audiological assessment process at audiology section of Kenyatta National Hospital. The objectives of the study were to f...