| dc.description.abstract | Learners from pastoralist communities face peculiar challenges in accessing and continuing with
education. These challenges are occasioned by the fact that the pastoral communities attach a lot
of importance to pastoral production, the low population density and the challenge of ensuring
that the national education policy is relevant to the lives of the pastoralist communities. The
situation is worse for learners with visual impairments .Blindness impacts negatively to both the
visually impaired person and to others particularly, family members. It brings problems of
psychological, personal and social nature. It is on this premises that this study was designated to
investigate the impact of visual impairments among learners in pastoralist communities in Logo
logo school for the visually impaired in Marsabit county. The study adopted a descriptive survey
design. Data was collected using questionnaires, interview guides and observation checklists.
Twenty (20) learners with visual impairments, ten (10) teachers and one (I) head teacher
participated in the study making a total of 31 respondents. . The analysis indicated that majority
of the cases of visual impairments were caused by trachoma and lack of access to eye specialists.
The school had inadequate teaching/learning resources for visually impaired learners. Majority
of the teachers were male and lacked specialized training in skills for teaching learners with
visual impairments .The study recommended that there is need to allocate more resources for
children with special needs in pastoralist communities and innovative efforts made to increase
their access to education. | en_US |
