THE PREVALENCE OF SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN IN TWO SELECTED LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

Tauna, Stephen Juliet, Zibiri Rasheedah Adebola, Akpan Emem Effiong, Dr Ipadeola Hamid Mairo
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It is imperative that all children must be educated irrespective of their disability. This can only be possible if their disability is identified early enough for proper intervention. The identification of learners with special needs can help limit future academic challenges and also provide the opportunity for the right kind intervention hence, this study sought to determine the existence of learners with Special Educational Needs in two selected Local Government (LG) of Kaduna State which are Kaduna North and Kaduna South. The study was guided by three objectives; first to identify the existence of different categories of Special Need learners in regular public primary schools. Secondly, to ascertain the percentage of each category of learners with Special needs in public primary schools and finally, to determine the gender distribution of the different categories of identified learners with Special Needs in regular public primary schools in Kaduna state. A simple random sampling method was used to select a sample of forty one (41) schools was selected from seventy seven (77) public primary schools of both Kaduna North and Kaduna South LG. The instruments for data collection comprise of a checklist and an open ended questionnaire; both instruments were pilot-tested. The data gathered was inputted into Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 27 and analyzed using descriptive statistic. The data revealed that eight (8) categories of learners with special needs were identified in public primary schools in Kaduna North and Kaduna South. The study also discovered a higher percentage of learners with learning Disabilities in all schools in both LG, also the gender distribution of learners with special needs revealed that more boys have one form of disability or the other. The study therefore recommended that the state Government should employ specialists to manage these learners and augment this by training regular teachers. KEYWORDS: learners, special needs, public schools, identification, gender
尼日利亚卡杜纳州两个选定地方政府中特殊需要儿童的普遍程度
当务之急是,所有儿童,无论残疾与否,都必须接受教育。要做到这一点,就必须及早发现他们的残疾,以便采取适当的干预措施。因此,本研究试图确定卡杜纳州两个选定地方政府(LG)(即卡杜纳北部和卡杜纳南部)中是否存在有特殊教育需求的学生。这项研究有三个目标:首先,确定普通公立小学中是否存在不同类别的有特殊教育需求的学生。其次,确定各类有特殊需要的学生在公立小学中所占的比例,最后,确定卡杜纳州正规公立小学中已确定的各类有特殊需要的学生的性别分布情况。采用简单随机抽样的方法,从卡杜纳北区和卡杜纳南区的七十七(77)所公立小学中抽取了四十一(41)所学校作为样本。数据收集工具包括一份核对表和一份开放式问卷;这两份工具都经过了试点测试。收集到的数据已输入社会科学统计软件包(SPSS)第 27 版,并使用描述性统计方法进行了分析。数据显示,在卡杜纳北部和卡杜纳南部的公立小学中发现了八(8)类有特殊需要的学生。研究还发现,在这两个地方政府的所有学校中,有学习障碍的学生比例较高,有特殊需要的学生的性别分布也显示,有一种或另一种形式的残疾的男生较多。因此,研究建议州政府聘请专家来管理这些学生,并通过培训普通教师来加强这方面的工作。 关键词:学生、特殊需求、公立学校、识别、性别
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