ABSTRACT Learners who are mentally retarded like any other handicapped learners are faced by so many challenges. These challenges affect their performance in self help skills and other cognitive abilities. The researcher wanted to carryout a research to find out the challenges facing these particular learners in special schools and units in Soy Division of Nandi East District. The researcher prepared and used questionnaires for teachers and interview guides for the parents to collect data. He...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine the challenges of inclusion of children with Visual impairments in regular primary schools in Msambweni District, Kenya The specific objectives of the study were to assess the relevance of primary education currently offered to children with Visual impairment, to explore the disability specific challenges of children with Visual impairment; and to investigate the constraints to the provision of educational service for children with Visual impa...
ABSTRACT The researcher report is about the Effect of hearing impairment on the academic performance of learners with specific learning difficulties in mathematics in Kanzanzu zone of Mwingi district. The statement of the problem was identifying major problems facing learners with hearing impairment and the solutions to these problems.
ABSTRACT The study is based on the challenges that the regular teacher forces while teaching learners with physical handicaps. Physical handicap is a condition which makes it difficult for a person to move or manipulate the physical environment. This condition covers a wide range from the mild degree of clumsiness to a severe degree where a person is in a wheel chair and needs a lot of help. The researcher used the quantitative approach whereby the standardized tools and numerical data were u...
ABSTRACT A fundamental feature of social life is social interaction, or the ways in which people act with other people and react to how other people are acting, which is a deficit in learners with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Public Primary Schools in Kenya. It sought to establish peer-mediated strategies enhancing social interactions of children with Autism in Migori County, Kenya. The objectives were: peer-mediated strategies currently used by teachers, the extent to which play activities ...
ABSTRACT The research study was to investigate the teacher's attitudes and inclusion of special needs education learners , in regular schools in Kigoto Zone, Suba District . In related literature, the researcher compared his work with what others had researched in the past. The same was worked with the modules, books and journals among other sources. Data Collection was done using questionnaires, quantitive method in the data interpretation and survey was used to as a design. Simple random sa...
ABSTRACT Learners with mental retardation have probably been the most misunderstood among all exceptional children, this has resulted in them being denied adequate opportunities to practice and develop their maximum potentials. Several derogatory terms have been used to refer to the learners with mental retardation; idiots, imbeciles, subnormal, feeble, morons and fools among others. This trend has persisted in spite of the many intervention strategies that have been put in place in efforts a...
ABSTRACT This research set out to establish student's perception about HIV/AIDS in Kabarnet Division of Baringo District. The main objectives of the study were: to find out whether primary school students actually believe that A!Ds is a threat to them, to find out students attitude towards behaviour change programmes and the role played by parents, teachers and the entire community in inclusion of good morals among the students, and to find out students perception about people with HIV/ A ID...
ABSTRACT The research project entails a study of the factors contributing to poor K.C.P.E. English performance in Kemera Zone, Manga District. The purpose of the study was to analyse the 1 arious constraints encountered in teaching English in Kemera Zone, Primary Schon is. The population from which the data was to drawn included the following: i) All the Primary Schools in Kemera Zone, Manga District. ii) All the English teachers in Primary Schools in Kemera Zone, Manga district. iii) All the...
ABSTRACT This research paper aimed at investigating the attitudes and parental involvement in education of children with special needs in Kapturn zone Keiyo district Kenya. It was carried out in selected schools of keiyo Zone in Kenya, E. Africa. It is made up of a total of five chapters. Chapter one is introduction. It gives an insight into a background of the topic Parental involvement and participation in the education of their children with special needs. It also looks into the theory, ob...
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...