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A Survey Of Educational And Counselling Needs Of Deaf Students
[A CASE STUDY OF KWARA STATE SCHOOL FOR THE HANDICAPPED, ILORIN] -
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CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE
Introduction
This chapter presents the review of past studies associated with exceptional children particularly the deaf.
The sub-topics are presented as follows:
- Definition of deaf
- Signs and types of deafness
- Causes of Deafness
- Problems associated with the deaf
- Attitudes of the public towards the handicapped people.
- Prevention of hearing impairment
- Management of hearing impairment
Meaning of deaf
Onaolapo (2004) defines hearing impairment as “The inability of the human ear to function adequatelyâ€. A person who has hearing impairment is unable to use his ear to understand speech.
He also quoted the conference of the executives of American schools for the deaf which described deaf as “those whose sense of hearing is not functional for the ordinary purposes of lifeâ€.
Also, according to Akinpelu (1999) there are many terms often used inter-changeably in describing people with hearing impairment. These includes, the deaf, hard of hearing, defective etc. but hearing impairment is the general term used to describe any form of hearing loss.
Furthermore, Frisina (1998) in his definition of hearing impairment, described the physical and educational dimensions of the handicap as: -
“A deaf person is one whose hearing is disabled to some extent that he or she cannot understand speech through the ear alone except with the use of hearing aids (p.3).
While “A hard-of-hearing person is one whose hearing is disabled to an extent that makes difficult, but not preclude the understanding of speech through the ear alone, with or without a hearing aid (p.3).
Signs associated with hearing impairment
A child can be said to have hearing impairment if he or she has difficulties in hearing the speech of other people in his/her own immediate environment. According to Ashonibare (2000), such a child would have to rely on some devices to understand what is said, also his/her communication is unintelligible to listeners, he speaks below his age and cannot construct correct sentences.
According to Onaolapo (2003) the following signs are also associated with deafness: -
a. confusing words with sound alike.
b. Failure to carry out verbal instruction
c. Rubbing the ear constantly.
d. Turning the ears to one side to catch the sound or help attract the sound.
e. Watch the lip movement of the speaker instead of watching the eyes.
f. Following or bending forward to hear the speaker
g. Curbing the ear
h. Inability to talk by the age of 24 months
i. Hesitating to answer simple questions
j. Omission of sound of words after the age of 3 years.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACT This work is about The Learning Problems of The Deaf (Handicapped) Children in the Kwara State School for the Handicapped, Ilorin. A questionnaire titled Counselling Needs of Deaf Questionnaire was administered to fifteen deaf students of the institution and another ten students who are (non-deaf) normal students, four hypothesis were drawn and the t-test method was used to analyse the data. It was discovered that deaf problems that are not discovered at early stage ... Continue reading---
APPENDIX A - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]APPENDIXUNIVERSITY OF ADO-EKITI IN QAFFILIATION WITH KWARA STATE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, ILORIN COUNSELLING NEEDS OF DEAF QUESTIONNAIRE (C.N.O.F.Q)Dear Students, The Questionnaire is designed to seek for opinion on the problems confronting deaf students in your school, it is only for research purpose please, reply faithfully to all the items. Section A: Personal Data Please mark by ticking the appropriate answerSex: Male ( ) Female ( ) Age: 11 – 14years ( ) ... Continue reading---
LIST OF TABLES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Analysis of the relationship between the learning problems of male and female deaf students Table 2: Analysis of the difference in the learning capabilities of deaf students who come from literate homes and those from illiterate homes Table 3: Showing the analysis of the differences of the difference in the learning problems of deaf students at the tender age and those at the adult ageable 4: Analysis of the learning problems of Christian deaf ... Continue reading---
TABLE OF CONTENTS - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]TABLE OF CONTENTSTITLE PAGE CERTIFICATION DEDICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Statement of the problems Purpose of the Study General Questions Research Questions Research Hypothesis Significance of the study Delimitation of the study Operational definitions of terms CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF THE RELA ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER ONE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Purpose of the Study The purpose of the study is to investigate the counselling needs of deaf students in the Kwara State school for the handicap. The study also seeks to establish whether: - (1) There is any difference in the counselling needs of male and female deaf students in the school for the handicap. (2) There is any difference in the counselling needs of young and old deaf students in the school for the handicap. (3) There is any difference in the cou ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER THREE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]Validation of the Instrument According to Hopkins and Stanley (1981) validity refers to the extent to which a particular instrument actually and accurately measures what it intends to measure. The validity of instrument is how well it fulfils the function for which it is being used. Therefore the validation of the instrument of this research work was established by face and content. After the completion of the research instrument for the study, this Questionnaire ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FOUR - [ Total Page(s): 4 ]H02: There is no significant difference in the learning problems of deaf students who have literate parents.The above table shows that the value (2.064) is less than the calculated value (3.315), hence the null hypothesis is not accepted. This then means that there is substantial difference in the learning capabilities of dead students who parents are literate and those whose parents are illiterate. H03: There is no significant difference in the learning problems of those who ... Continue reading---
CHAPTER FIVE - [ Total Page(s): 2 ]CHAPTER FIVESUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS This chapter deals with the summary of the study, the conclusions and recommendations of the study. The details of the above mentioned are as follows: - Summary This research work is designed to find the learning problems of handicapped children, especially the deaf in Kwara State School for the handicapped, Ilorin. In the course of the work therefore, attempts were made to answer such questions as: What is generally being handicap ... Continue reading---
REFRENCES - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]REFERENCES Adima, E.C., Ladipo O.O: Abosi C.O. (1981) Introduction to Special Education, Ibadan Heinmann. Akuju, O.D. (1989) Special Education: An important Component Education. Education Today journal of Federal Ministry of Education, 2 (70) 1-2. Augustine Nwoye (1988). The task and demands counselling the disabled persons in Nigeria. Jos. Fab, Anie (Nig) Ltd. Bukoye, R.O. (2005) Introduction to Special Education and needs for exceptional children.Denmark, J.C. (1993). The education of deaf c ... Continue reading---
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]ABSTRACT This work is about The Learning Problems of The Deaf (Handicapped) Children in the Kwara State School for the Handicapped, Ilorin. A questionnaire titled Counselling Needs of Deaf Questionnaire was administered to fifteen deaf students of the institution and another ten students who are (non-deaf) normal students, four hypothesis were drawn and the t-test method was used to analyse the data. It was discovered that deaf problems that are not discovered at early stage ... Continue reading---