ABSTRACT
The purpose of this research work is to investigate the problems of educating the physically handicapped students in Idia College Secondary School in Benin City in Edo State will be used as the sample. A questionnaires designed by the researcher was used to collect information from one hundred (100) respondents comprising of teachers and students in some selected schools in Benin City. It also covers the roles of teachers educating the physically handicapped. It was also found out that physically handicapped students could perform excellently well in academic work like the normal students. The researcher recommended that the handicapped should be encouraged to remove the ill feelings of their disability and feel free with their normal peers. It was also suggested that government and well meaning Nigerians should fund the education of the physically handicapped person.
TABLE OF CONTENT
Chapter One
Introduction
Statement of the problem
Purpose of the study
Research questions
Basic assumptions
Delimitation of the study
Limitations of the study
Significance of the study
Definition of terms
Chapter Two- Literature Review
The public perception of physically handicapped children
Aims and effects of education on the physically handicapped children
The teacher role in the development of the physically handicapped children.
Physically handicapped children and the past development in learning
Role of government and other organizations in elevating the status of the physically handicapped.
Chapter There
Methodology
Research Design
Population of the study
Sample and sampling procedures
Research instrument
Validity of the instrument
Method of data analysis
Chapter Four – Data Analysis and Interpretation
Chapter Five
Summary
Conclusion
Recommendations
Suggestions for further research
REFERENCES
QUESTIONNAIRES
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
There have been several criticisms about Nigerian education, among which, according to Mba (2005), is its failure to take account of individual differences among learners into consideration. The need to consider individual differences is not unconnected with the fact that children do not develop the same way. For instance, while some may be tall and thin, others may be short and fat. These and many others are just examples of differences in children’s physical development. There are also some differences in intelligence, emotional, maturity and social development among children. Thus, we have the hearing impaired children, the learning disabled, the gifted, the talented, the mentally retarded and host of others. These children and youths with variations in their total development are those for with special education is meant to take care of. According to Osakwe (2010), the school systems now face increasing pressure to raise standards, develop social and personal skills, broaden curricula, pay greater attention to equal educational opportunities and prepare young people for rapidly changing world. Invariably, the modern trend all over the world is shifting towards addressing the educational plights of students with one form of disabilities or the other so as to better their life. The rationale behind this is contingent upon the fact that people with disabilities too have invaluable roles to play in national development, and to be able to do this effectively and meaningfully, their education needs to be given proper attention. This paper therefore sets out to explore some of the challenges facing the education of students with disabilities as well as the policy implications these challenges have towards improving the lives of students with disabilities.
The handicapped children are gifted children who have ability to be educated irrespective of their disabilities, like the deaf, the blind, the dumb, lame etc. therefore, the handicapped children in Nigeria posses the talents and all the aggregate of learning just like their counter parts at school. Education which is a life provided for every individual, the physically handicapped inclusive. The team can be viewed in many ways mainly psychological and maladjustment.
An handicapped child is a child that lacks something that made him/her incapable of living like other children, it could be the hands, legs, eyes, ear etc in everyday life, the term handicap is often used to signify a physical defect, limb, paralysis, partial or total blindness etc. all these features renders the child incapable of living in quite same ways as the normally endowed.
The term handicapped, when used in a wider sense, include intellectual disabilities and disadvantages which are cause learning hardship. In the light of the above discussion, the study will look into the various learning hardship likely to be faced by the handicapped child in school. Previous researchers have revealed that behaviours are judged in terms of the society existing standards, therefore the ability of the handicapped can be under estimated by their teacher because already they are termed that they cannot perform as well as the naturally endowed pupils/students. This study will examine the various problems facing the education of the handicaps ones.