Emmanuel Kofi Gyimah

• PhD
• Head of Department at University of Cape Coast

unclusive education necesitates enhanced school support services for pupils with special educational needs. Trhough the purposive and systematic sampling methods, eighty-eight special needs pupils were selected from the New Horison, Dzorwulu Special school and the State school for the Deaf, all in the Greater Accra region for the study. The study e...

Effective written language expression is generally conceived as an important tool in communication. Using the work samples of sixty eight primary six pupils drawn from public primary schools in Cape Coast and Twifo Breman in the Central Region of Ghana, the investigators examined the pattern of errors pupils make in English Written Language and fac...

The issue of where to teach children with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities has been a great concern as countries respond to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Salamanca Statement on inclusion of 1994. In this study, the responses of 500 trained and untrained mainstream primary school teache...

Literature is replete with evidence of considerable pressure that many mainstream teachers may experience in their bid to respond to the diverse needs of children with special educational needs and disabilities and to achieve ever better results. In this study, the results of 100 teachers from mainstream primary schools in three of the ten regions...

The purpose of this study was to survey the attitudes of teachers in Ghana towards children with special educational needs (SEN) and disabilities in relation to the UNESCO (1994) Salamanca Statement on inclusion. Using random sampling techniques, five. hundred and forty trained and un~rained mainstream Primary School teachers were selected from thr...

The aim of the study was to find out the extent to which students with Mental Retardation, Visual Impairment and Hearing Impairment would accept the idea of mainstreaming programmes in Ghana. In carrying out the study, 90 students were selected randomly from three of the country\'s special schools. A-15 item questionnaire designed in the Likert sca...

Educating individuals with mental retardation is one of the priorities for most governments in contemporary societies and Ghana is no exception in this endeavour. In the United States of America, Heward (1996) reports that mental retardation is the "oldest" field and that the first public school special education programmes began in 1896 with class...

The philosophy of inclusive education necessitates rigorous changes in the school system if it can be effective. In order to respond to the challenge, countries are required to develop structures that make it possible for schools to adapt curriculum demands and pedagogical strategies in meeting the needs of all children including those with special...