Health Services and Education of the Multiply Handicapped In Special Schools of Nyando District, Kenya2
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Date
2008
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Kampala International University, school of special needs education
Abstract
In an attempt to investigate on the problem, the researcher identified
Nyando District from which he objectively selected the special schools
as the research environment. The study was guided by research
objectives which included determining the health problems of the
Multiply Handicapped; to identify therapeutic, medical and nutritional
services provided to these learners with Multiple Handicap. To gather
more information on the issue related literature was reviewed on areas
such as health problems, therapeutic and medical services. Primary
and secondary literature sources were used. Some pieces of
information were surfed from the web. In data collection, survey was
adopted as the research design. This was used because a large group
of respondents was targeted. Questionnaires were then developed,
tested for validity, reliability. They were dispatched to the respondents
who gave their views by answering the question items. The data
collected were analyzed and presented quantitatively in form of tables,
figures and graphs. Other data were presented qualitatively in
descriptive form. The main findings included concomitant existence of
health problems, inadequate provision of therapeutic, medical and
nutritional services. It was also established that inadequate provision
of these services impact greatly in the education of learners with
Multiple Handicaps. In order to intervene for the above issues, the
researcher made some recommendations valuable to service providers
and relevant stake holders involved with learners who are multiply
challenged. The recommendations included provision of adequate
therapeutic services, establishment of sickbays geared towards
adequate provision of medical services, provision of balance diet,
timely diagnosis and early intervention to check conditions which could
precipitate the disabling conditions
Description
A Research Award of Degree Report Submitted In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the of Bachelor Special Needs Education to the Faculty of the Institute Of Open and Distance Learning Kampala International University
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Health Services and Education of the Multiply Handicapped In Special Schools, Nyando District, Kenya