AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIETAL ATTITUDES AND THE EDUCATION OF HANDICAPPED CHILDREN IN KADUNA STATE
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2010-09-26
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Ahmadu Bello University Zaria
Abstract
The study investigated the relationship between societal attitudes and the
education of the handicapped children in Kaduna State. The social welfare
workers, Local Government Education Authority workers, classroom
teachers and the handicapped people were used for the research. 423
questionnaires were given out to collect data from the respondents, but
416 questionnaires were retrieved. The analytical tools employed include
summary of statistics of frequency and percentage distribution, the
Pearson Product moment correlation co-efficient and one tail-t-test were
used to test the hypotheses. The results obtained revealed that society has
a negative attitude towards the education of the handicapped children.
They believe that attitudes like pity, over-protection, preferential
treatment etc will help the handicapped child to learn faster. The society
seems to have preference towards educating handicapped male children
compared to handicapped female children. Also, findings revealed that
there is only one special school in the entire Kaduna State for educating
the handicapped child.