Challenges Facing Teachers in Teaching Students with Visual Impairment in an Integrated School: A Study of Moi Girls’ School, Nairobi.

This study investigated the problems the teachers encountered in integrating students with visual impairment. The study sought to find out whether teachers were adequately trained to teach students with visual impairment. It also investigated the problems the teachers faced in adopting the syllabus for students with visual impairment. It investigated whether teachers were guided on how to teach students with visual impairment. The study also sought to find out the opinion of teachers towards the integration of the learners with visual impairment into the mainstream. The locale for the study was Moi Girls‟ School, Nairobi where there was integration programme. The institution is in Nairobi province where there is integration programme of students with visual impairment and is the most prominent with the highest number of students with visual impairment in Nairobi. The school is easily accessible in terms of distance from the city center and is one of the pioneer schools to implement the programme of integration in Nairobi. The data for the study was collected using a questionnaire to investigate challenges the teachers faced in teaching students with visual impairment in integrated schools. The study targeted the teachers at Moi Girls‟ School Nairobi. A purposive random sampling technique was applied to identify the teachers. Forty-seven teachers were selected from the school whereby 25 of them were female while 22 were male. This was a sample taken from 63 teachers teaching in the institution. The data was collected, coded and summarized on the basis of the objectives of the study. The analysis and results were presented through tables.