T Ajobiewe¹, B A Okeke², B O M Ejukonemu3
¹Federal College of Education (Special) Oyo, Education of the Visually Handicapped, Oyo State, Nigeria; ²University of Nigeria Nsukka, Educational Foundations, Nigeria; 3Ecwa Eye Hospital, Kano, Low Vision Programme, Nigeria
Recent trends in the educational rehabilitation of children with low vision in Nigeria raise concern on how to meet the increasing needs of these children. Years of indifference and reluctance occasioned by ignorance and superstition has tended to inhibit effective educational rehabilitation for low vision children who in the past have been erroneously classified and provided with the same educational services as the blind. Research, reports however, indicate that a significant number of Braille-reading children in Nigeria can benefit from instruction through prints. With the interest of knowing the details regarding their mode of education, the best accepted services for the low vision and the constraints to service provision, the study was concluded. 225 special education personnel across the country were used. The finding would be used in proposing workable programme for the low vision children in Nigeria.
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