ABSTRACT
The objective of the study is to investigate the impending challenges faced by leainers
with low vision on the integrated programmes in Kisumu District. The predicainent of
these leainers remains unresolved if vital resources, personnel and environmental
modification are not upgraded to suit their needs. The insensitiveness of the general
school community to involve these leainers in facing difficulties with adequate assistance
rather thai1 placing these leainer in Special schools forms the basis of the study.
A quantitative approach and survey design is hence used in collecting data using own
designed questionnaire. Thirty respondents provided the sainple population as a
representation of more than one hundred schools integrating leainers with low vision in
the region. Frequency table was used to assemble ai1d ai1alyse the results.
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The findings from the study reveals that despite the training of teaches .!§ handling
learners with low vision, insensitiveness of the plight of the leai11ers is still lacking by the
general school community. The challenges continuous to exist due to lack of serious
commitment of the entire community to embrace the challenges as opportunities for
development of model institutions where hence the challenges will be aineliorated as an
exainple to other institutions.
Difficulties expe1ienced on the use of low vts10n aids, orientation and mobility,
cmTiculum and non cm-riculmn ai·eas would hence be resolved in order to admit all
leainers with diverse categories of low vision.
Finally, the researcher advocates for creation of model schools from district or divisional
level to act as resource centr·es where all the needs of these leai11ers would be met. This
would act as the key centres of training, inductions and visits for implementation of
inclusive policy by the yeai· 2015. This would work along achieving universal education,
the article two of the millennium development goals (MDGS) by the year 2015 in Kisumu District and Kenya at large.
OKWIRI, A (2021). Learning Challenges Of Students With Low Vision In Kisumu Integrated Programmes, Kisumu District Kenya. Afribary. Retrieved from https://tracking.afribary.com/works/learning-challenges-of-students-with-low-vision-in-kisumu-integrated-programmes-kisumu-district-kenya
OKWIRI, ANYANGO "Learning Challenges Of Students With Low Vision In Kisumu Integrated Programmes, Kisumu District Kenya" Afribary. Afribary, 09 Jun. 2021, https://tracking.afribary.com/works/learning-challenges-of-students-with-low-vision-in-kisumu-integrated-programmes-kisumu-district-kenya. Accessed 27 Nov. 2024.
OKWIRI, ANYANGO . "Learning Challenges Of Students With Low Vision In Kisumu Integrated Programmes, Kisumu District Kenya". Afribary, Afribary, 09 Jun. 2021. Web. 27 Nov. 2024. < https://tracking.afribary.com/works/learning-challenges-of-students-with-low-vision-in-kisumu-integrated-programmes-kisumu-district-kenya >.
OKWIRI, ANYANGO . "Learning Challenges Of Students With Low Vision In Kisumu Integrated Programmes, Kisumu District Kenya" Afribary (2021). Accessed November 27, 2024. https://tracking.afribary.com/works/learning-challenges-of-students-with-low-vision-in-kisumu-integrated-programmes-kisumu-district-kenya