Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to find out the methods teachers use in teaching daily
living skills to learners with intellectual disabilities at Yumba Special School for the
Intellectually Disabled. The study was qualitative and adopted a case study design.
The method for data collection was interviews. The purposive sampling technique
was used to select the sample size of 10 participants for the study. Data were
analysed thematically. The results revealed that cooperative method, direct
method,interactive method and peer tutoring were methods teachers used in teaching
daily living skills to learners with intellectual disabilities. Additionally, teachers
mainly concerntrated on few areas of daily living skills such as basic self-care skills,
social skills and community use skills.The results of the study also revealed
challenges teachers face in teaching daily living skills which included, inadequate
provision of teaching and learning resources, large class sizes, inadequate trained
personnel and lack of motivation. The researcher recommended that teachers in the
school should make use of other methods such as, demonstration method, one-on-one
method, and activity method which are very practical to facilitate the understanding of
learners. Moreover, in- service courses should organise to teachers in the school to
improve on the methods in teaching daily living skills to these learners. It was also
recommended that the school should include the other aeras of daily living skills in
the curriclum. The school administration should ensure that learning/teaching
resources needed in teaching daily living skills are available in these schools. Finally,
it was recommended that government should provide enough funds for construction
of adequate classrooms to help reduce the challenges.
Description:
thesis in the Department of Special Education
Faculty of Educational Studies, submitted to the School of
Graduate Studies, in partial fulfillment
of the requirement for the award of the degree of
Master of Philosophy
(Special Education)
in University of Education, Winneba
MARCH, 2022