ABSTRACT
This study was basically intended to evaluate the effect mainstreaming
on the academic performance of hearing impaired learners. This is done
by integrating learners with hearing impairment with the normal ones.
These learners should be given equal opportunities like the normal
ones, and should not be stigmatized, discriminated or intimidated in
any way by those handling them in the classrooms or the whole school
at large.
To investigate this researcher used descriptive survey and sample size
determination, which is based on a strong probability approach.
The researcher found out that the majority of people she interacted with
during the study, were very much positive about the mainstream
system especially the parents, some teachers and the learners. The
teachers who never backed this idea were those who had not gone for
the course of Special Needs Education and a few of those who had
attended the course, who felt that they were being intimidated by the
head teachers and zonal inspectors who were interested only in
attaining high standards.
It is also quite evident that most schools lacked facilities or resources
for the hearing impaired learners. Some of these learners also came
from very poor families, and for that matter, their parents could not afford to buy them hearing aids, to aid their learning
MANASSE, R (2021). Mainstreaming And The Academic Performance Of Hearing Impaired Learners In Central Zone, Kisumu Municipality, Kenya. Afribary. Retrieved from https://track.afribary.com/works/mainstreaming-and-the-academic-performance-of-hearing-impaired-learners-in-central-zone-kisumu-municipality-kenya
MANASSE, RUTH "Mainstreaming And The Academic Performance Of Hearing Impaired Learners In Central Zone, Kisumu Municipality, Kenya" Afribary. Afribary, 04 Jun. 2021, https://track.afribary.com/works/mainstreaming-and-the-academic-performance-of-hearing-impaired-learners-in-central-zone-kisumu-municipality-kenya. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
MANASSE, RUTH . "Mainstreaming And The Academic Performance Of Hearing Impaired Learners In Central Zone, Kisumu Municipality, Kenya". Afribary, Afribary, 04 Jun. 2021. Web. 24 Nov. 2024. < https://track.afribary.com/works/mainstreaming-and-the-academic-performance-of-hearing-impaired-learners-in-central-zone-kisumu-municipality-kenya >.
MANASSE, RUTH . "Mainstreaming And The Academic Performance Of Hearing Impaired Learners In Central Zone, Kisumu Municipality, Kenya" Afribary (2021). Accessed November 24, 2024. https://track.afribary.com/works/mainstreaming-and-the-academic-performance-of-hearing-impaired-learners-in-central-zone-kisumu-municipality-kenya