Special Needs Education Research Papers/Topics

Impact of Reduced Acuity on Academic Performance among Senior Secondary Schools Students, Lafia, Nasarawa State, Nigeria

ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of reduced visual acuity on academic performance among Senior Secondary (SS1-SS2) School Students in Lafia, Nasarawa State. The study adopted an expo-facto research design and purposive sampling technique to select participants based on a predetermined criterion. From the total population of 1500, 306 were sampled through an online sample size calculator. Data for this study was collected among the selected 92 students with reduced visual acuity using a...

ATTITUDE OF REGULAR TEACHERS ON INTEGRATION OF MENTALLY CHALLENGED LEARNERS IN SELECTED PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN UPLANDS ZONE LARI DIVISION KIAMBU DISTRICT, KENYA

ABSTRACTThe research project aimed at establishing the attitude harbored by regularprimary school teachers towards integration of mentally challenged persons in regularprimary schools.Out of the four major categories of disabilities that people do suffer, children withmental challenges suffer most in negligence and segregation from the mainstreameducation than any other category of disability. This has been due to the attitudeharbored by the teachers in incorporating these children in mainstr...

Psychosocial Effects Of Tinnitus On The Elderly Individuals With Normal Hearing Abilities In Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria

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....

Effect of Auditory Training and Aided Language Stimulation on Speech Perception of Children with Hearing loss in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

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 ...

GAMES AND SPORTS AS INDICATORS OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INDIVIDUALS

ABSTRACT ABSTRACT This study examines games and sports as indicators to physical and mental development of the visually impaired individuals using the survey design. Subjects for the study were randomly selected from two schools in Oyo and Lagos States. A set of questionnaire W


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