ABSTRACT The point to which caregivers are satisfied with the care they receive for themselves and their children from the health professionals, has increasingly become an issue for all stakeholders concerned with improving health outcomes. The Salvation Army Community Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Centre Agona–Duakwa, provides rehabilitation services to children with cerebral palsy and for their caregivers. These caregivers mostly seek these services to address the problems of their chi...
ABSTRACT This study explored the academic challenges of students who are deaf at Presbyterian College of Education, Akropong-Akuapem in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The case study research design was adopted for the study. Twelve students who were deaf were purposively sampled from a population of 32 students. Data were gathered through a semistructured interview guide. Data were coded and analyzed using thematic approach and verbatim expressions from the respondents where applicable. Findi...
ABSTRACT This study explored the academic challenges of students who are deaf at Presbyterian College of Education, Akropong-Akuapem in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The case study research design was adopted for the study. Twelve students who were deaf were purposively sampled from a population of 32 students. Data were gathered through a semistructured interview guide. Data were coded and analyzed using thematic approach and verbatim expressions from the respondents where applicable. Findi...
ABSTRACT The study is about the attitudes of Physical Education Personnel towards the participation of the hearing impaired in competitive school sports in the Central Region of Ghana. The methodology, which was qualitative, involved the use of interview and document scrutiny for data collection. In all a sample of twelve (12) respondents, involving the Regional Physical Education coordinator, District Physical Education coordinators, sports teachers for the Schools for the Deaf and Ph...
ABSTRACT This was a qualitative study focused on access to rehabilitation services for persons with physical disabilities at the Salvation Army Rehabilitation and Orthopedic Training Center at Agona- Duakwa in the Central Region of Ghana. Data was collected and analyzed thematically with the use of document scrutiny which enabled for data triangulation during the analysis process. Results indicated that persons with physical disabilities had three main types of access to the Center whi...
ABSTRACT This case study was to find out the approaches teachers’ use in teaching mathematics to students with visual impairment at Adidome Senior High School in the Volta Region of Ghana. Sixteen students with visual impairment were purposively sampled from a population of 19 students. Data were gathered using a semi-structured interview guide. Data were coded and analyzed using the thematic approach. Results of the study indicated that the teachers employed strategies such as peer tutori...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out the strategies teachers use in managing children with inappropriate behaviours in selected basic schools in Sandema in the Upper East Region of Ghana. This study employed a mixed method research design to guide the study. The sample size was 36 respondents. Questionnaire in the form of a Likert-type scale was used to collect data for the study. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistical methods. The results revealed ...
ABSTRACT This descriptive study explored parental involvement in the education of their children who are blind at Asuogya D/A Junior High School in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana. Thirty-five participants made up of fifteen parents and twenty teachers responded to the interview items and the questionnaire. The study employed convenient and purposive sampling techniques to sample the parents and teachers for the study. Data was analyzed using SPSS to obtain simple frequencies and p...
ABSTRACT Reading skills are vital to successful learning in all school subjects. Students with learning disabilities are known to have difficulties in reading. Studies have been carried out on the usage of conventional methods in improving the comprehension skills of students with learning disabilities, but not much has been done on the use of metacognitive and direct-instructional strategies. This study, therefore, investigated the differential effectiveness of metacognitive and direct-inst...
ABSTRACT Exposure to excessive noise level is capable of producing destruction of the hair cells due to vasoconstriction of the cochlea blood vessels and over stimulation of the hair cells as a response to the noise exposure, which in turn may reduce the nutrient and oxygen to the cells as well as, placing a great impingement on the occupational performances of the Industrial workers. The study examined the potential effect of excessive noise exposure on the auditory performance and health st...
ABSTRACT This study examined occupational exposure to noise and patterns of hearing loss among industrial workers in Ibadan, Nigeria. The study adopted an ex-post facto research design; sampling 100 participants comprising of industrial workers and sawmillers, who were assessed by means of Pure Tone Audiometry, the sound level of the factories were measured with sound level meter. Frequency count, percentage, mean, standard deviation and pearson product moment correlation were employed to ans...
ABSTRACT The study focused on finding out the provisions teachers make for pupils with special educational needs in three selected inclusive pilot basic schools at Pokuase in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The study employed the descriptive survey design. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to select the sample size of 112 respondents. Descriptive statistical method was used to analyse questionnaire data for the study. Data from the semi-structured interviews were ...
ABSTRACT This study sought to investigate teachers‟ perception about the implementation of inclusive education in the Tamale Metropolis of Ghana. The study adopted a crosssectional survey design which involved a sample size of 253 teachers selected through census technique. Questionnaire was used to gather the required data which were analysed using descriptive statistical methods involving frequency, percentages, means, and standard deviations. Also, inferential statistics such as t-test...
ABSTRACT This study was conducted to examine how access and enrollment were ensured for children with intellectual disabilities with particular reference to children with mental retardation in Ghana. It was a descriptive survey where a cross-sectional research design was adopted. The problem of the study was that there was a general lack of access to education for children with intellectual disability resulting in minimal enrollment for these children in Ghana. Five research questions were r...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to understand the factors that militate against the Reading Comprehension Skills of Basic six (BS6) pupils of the State School for the Deaf at Adjei Kojo, Accra. A sample of 40, which included 19 teachers and 21 pupils who were selected using the simple random sampling and the purposive sampling techniques respectively, participated in the study. Questionnaires were used to collect data from the teachers, while actual intervention strategies in the form ...