Practices Of Special Needs Education Teachers In Teaching Sign Language To Deaf Students The Case Of North Showa Zone Of Amhara Region

The purpose of this study was to assess the practi ces of SNE teachers in teaching SignrnLanguage to deaf st udent s.To conduct the study, descripti ve survey method wasrnemployed. The study was conducted in special needs unit s of primary schools i n NorthrnShoa Zone of Amhara R egion. Among the 66rnspecial needs unit of pri maryrnschoolsf ound in the Zone, 35 of them were sel ected through cluster sampling techniquernas sample schools. The main instrument of data collection was quest ionnai re. Fourrnbasic questions f ocusing on the inst ructional contents, the types of inst ructi on alrnstrategies,the availability of adapt ed educational mat erial sand CTE’s t raining supportrnin teaching Sign Language were f ormul ated.Frequency, percentage, mean and t -testrnwere uti lized to analyses quantitati ve data g ained through the questionnai re . Thernqualitative data gathered thorough FGD and observation were by narration. Thernf inding of the study reveal ed that the basic content s of Sign Language were missingrnf rom the major linguisti c part of the (curri culum). Despite t he presence of suchasrnEthiopian f inger spelli ng, American Sign Language f inger spelli ng and number signrnand sign vocabulary. With regard to SNE teachers’ use of the i nst ructional st rategies,rnthe result of the study indicated that Signed Amharic signing system was f ound t o bernthe dominant inst ructi onal st rat egy. Moreover, absence of Sign Language text bookrnand teachers’ guide, SNE teachers’inabil ity to teach Sign Language as a subject andrnas a medium of inst ruction ,inadequate training support by CTE’s were inve st igated asrnmajor problems in teaching Sign Language in the sample school s. A strict anal ysi s ofrnthe result reveal s that SNE teachers to improve and strength thei r knowl edge and skillsrnof teaching Sign L anguage to deaf students. Finally, recommendation wer e f orwardedrnbased on the major f inding so as to mini mizing problems encount ered and maxi mi zingrnthe provision of quality Sign Language educationrnKey words: Sign Language

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