Educational And Psychosocial Challenges Of Students With Visual Impairments The Case Of Grade 5-8 Students At Sebeta Special School For The Blind

This study is conducted at Oromia region Sebeta special zone around Addis Ababa therncapital city of Ethiopia at sebeta special school for the blind. The purpose of this studyrnwas to identify the educational and psychosocial challenges of students with visualrnimpairment at Sebeta Special School for the Blind.The research approach employed bothrnqualitative and quantitative methods. In the research out of 131 total students, 37 (15rnmale and 22 female) students participated. Out of 32 total teachers, 5 male and 6 femalernaltogether 11teachers and two school principals participated. The techniques of selectingrnsample were purposive for students and simple random for teachers. The sources of datarnwere students with visual impairments, teachers, school principals and students profilernthrough observation, interviews and focus group discussion. The major findings of thernstudy were, psychological challenge of students with visual impairment, socialrnacceptance, lack of special needs education teachers, the scarcity of resources, inability ofrnusing assistive technology and lack of quality education. For these challenges; generatingrnstudents in inclusive school,improve teaching methodology, having individual educationrnprogram,employing the special needs education teachers and using music strategies to teachrnstudents with visual impairments are listed as recommendation

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