An Assessment on the Provision of Education to Students with Disabilities in Ward Secondary Schools Geita District Council, Geita Region.

Rashid, Salehe S. (2021) An Assessment on the Provision of Education to Students with Disabilities in Ward Secondary Schools Geita District Council, Geita Region. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The study focused on the assessment of the education delivery to the students with disabilities in Geita District. The study was guided by four objectives, to assess the types of disabilities in Geita secondary schools, to assess the status of teachers providing education to special needs learners, to assess the stakeholders awareness on the challenges facing disabilities learners and suggest ways to improve the education delivery to disabled learners in Geita district. The study was guided qualitative design. Interview, observation, and documents were methods used to collect data. The findings revealed that physical disability type was a leading in Geita, where physical disabilities was found to have 23 (45%). This implied that the parents largely were required to use more cost to transport disabled learners to attend schools. It further implied that, they have to purchase expensive devices for support learning (disability) navigation. These included Bajaji and tricycle. The expansiveness of these devices left some of the learners fail to attend school, dropped out. The result further revealed that in all Secondary schools, teachers were not trained specified to handle learners with learning disabilities. The findings reported that education administrators, teachers and students were aware of the challenges facing disabled learners in learning at inclusive education for example the DEO revealed that the special needs learners are not having their special school to carter farther needs. Unfriendly infrastructure like steep stairs and being required to share toilets with other normal students were some of the challenges. The findings finally revealed that specific construction of special needs schools, support parents to purchase the learning and transport materials such as wheelchairs, tricycle, and bajaji and training of teachers in special needs were recommended strategies.

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