Papers by Lazarus Kelechi
African Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Sport Facilitation, 2007
The study determined the nutritional challenges of persons with disability in special needs cente... more The study determined the nutritional challenges of persons with disability in special needs centers in mainland, Lagos State. Three research questions guided the study. Survey research design was adopted. The population of the study was 57. No sampling was done since the population was a manageable size. Validated questionnaire was used for data collection. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation. Findings showed that the types of disabilities among children in special need centers in Lagos State included among others: physical disability, learning disability, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, attention deficit disorder/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism and speech and language disorder. Findings also revealed that the nutritional needs of children with disability included feeding on different foods, drinking water regularly, taking fruits daily, and ensuring that their nutrient requirements are met daily. Findings indicated that the nutritional challenges of children with disability included among others: excessive salivation, frequent constipation, inability to feed oneself, depending on care givers for feeding, food dropping from the mouth while being fed and difficulty in chewing and swallowing foods. Conclusion was made. Among recommendations made was that children with disabilities should be provided with variety of foods daily to meet their nutritional needs and parents/caregivers should devote more feeding time to the disabled child.
IJDS Indonesian Journal of Disability Studies
Reading is an essential language skill in students’ educational success. However, reports have sh... more Reading is an essential language skill in students’ educational success. However, reports have shown that the most prevalent type of academic difficulties among secondary school students with learning disabilities is reading difficulties. Previous studies focused more on interventions to improve reading comprehension achievement of students with learning disabilities than on the influence of metacognitive strategies on students’ reading comprehension achievement. This study, therefore, investigated the influence of metacognitive awareness of (before, during and after) reading strategies on the reading comprehension achievement of students with learning disabilities in Senior Secondary Schools (SSS) in Ibadan, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive research design. A sample of 100 students with learning disabilities was purposively selected from nine SSS in Ibadan, Nigeria. Instruments used were Academic records, Screening Checklist for Suspected Learning Disabilities, English Lang...
Indonesian Journal of Disability Studies, Jul 10, 2023
Reading is an essential language skill in students' educational success. However, reports have sh... more Reading is an essential language skill in students' educational success. However, reports have shown that the most prevalent type of academic difficulties among secondary school students with learning disabilities is reading difficulties. Previous studies focused more on interventions to improve reading comprehension achievement of students with learning disabilities than on the influence of metacognitive strategies on students' reading comprehension achievement. This study, therefore, investigated the influence of metacognitive awareness of (before, during and after) reading strategies on the reading comprehension achievement of students with learning disabilities in Senior Secondary Schools (SSS) in Ibadan, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive research design. A sample of 100 students with learning disabilities was purposively selected from nine SSS in Ibadan, Nigeria. Instruments used were Academic records, Screening Checklist for Suspected Learning Disabilities, English Language Achievement Test, Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Questionnaire and the Reading Comprehension Test. Data collected were analyzed using the Multiple regression analysis at 0.05 level of significance. There was a joint contribution of the independent variables (metacognitive awareness of before, during and after reading strategies) to reading comprehension achievement (F (3,96) =3.61; R2=0.101). The result also reveals the relative contributions of metacognitive awareness of reading strategies (before, during and after) to the reading comprehension achievement among students with learning disabilities as follows: before (β = 0.25), after (β = 0.23) and during (β =-0.17) reading strategies. The study concludes that metacognitive awareness of (before, during and after) reading strategies influence reading comprehension achievement of students with learning disabilities. It is therefore recommended that students with learning disabilities should be trained on the use of metacognitive (before, during and after) reading strategies for improved reading comprehension achievement.
African Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Sport Facilitation, Dec 13, 2007
The study determined the nutritional challenges of persons with disability in special needs cente... more The study determined the nutritional challenges of persons with disability in special needs centers in mainland, Lagos State. Three research questions guided the study. Survey research design was adopted. The population of the study was 57. No sampling was done since the population was a manageable size. Validated questionnaire was used for data collection. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation. Findings showed that the types of disabilities among children in special need centers in Lagos State included among others: physical disability, learning disability, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, attention deficit disorder/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism and speech and language disorder. Findings also revealed that the nutritional needs of children with disability included feeding on different foods, drinking water regularly, taking fruits daily, and ensuring that their nutrient requirements are met daily. Findings indicated that the nutritional challenges of children with disability included among others: excessive salivation, frequent constipation, inability to feed oneself, depending on care givers for feeding, food dropping from the mouth while being fed and difficulty in chewing and swallowing foods. Conclusion was made. Among recommendations made was that children with disabilities should be provided with variety of foods daily to meet their nutritional needs and parents/caregivers should devote more feeding time to the disabled child.
International Online Journal of Primary Education
Spelling is a crucial skill for academic success however many pupils with learning disabilities l... more Spelling is a crucial skill for academic success however many pupils with learning disabilities lag behind in academic tasks because of poor spelling skills and its accompanying negative effects. Past studies on pupils with learning disabilities focused more on reading skills with little attention on spelling skills. This study investigated the main impacts of visual imagery and cloze spelling instructional strategies on the spelling performance of pupils with learning disabilities. The study adopted a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group design with a 3 x 2 factorial matrix. Sixty students with learning disabilities (Male = 38, Female = 22, Mean age = 9.35) from three government-run primary schools were chosen using purposive sampling. Three instruments were used: Pupil Rating Scale (Revised) (r = 0.76), Right Word Recognition (r = 0.91) and Pupils’ Note Books on Dictated Words. Data were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings revealed...
Journal of Educational Development and Practice, Dec 1, 2013
Ife Psychologia, Sep 1, 2017
The Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2017
International Journal of Educational Research, May 21, 2019
Studies in Educational Management
Teacher classroom behaviour has been documented as a main determinant of the classroom learning a... more Teacher classroom behaviour has been documented as a main determinant of the classroom learning activities, interactions, and student outcomes. The study investigated the predicting influence of three teacher-related factors (teacher self-efficacy, year of teaching experience, and level of teachers’ school which could be primary level or secondary level) on teachers’ classroom behaviours. The descriptive research design of the correlational type was adopted. The sample size was 132 (female=76, male=56) primary and secondary school teachers in Ibadan Metropolis, Oyo State, Nigeria. The respondents had the average age of 20-59 years ( = 39.5 years). Two validated and relevant instruments namely, teacher self-efficacy and teacher classroom behaviours scales were used in this study. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson product moment correlation and multiple regression analysis. The result revealed that is a positive relationship between teacher self-efficacy, years o...
<br>Demographic factors, attitude and knowledge of persons with special needs towards COVID... more <br>Demographic factors, attitude and knowledge of persons with special needs towards COVID-19 in Nigeria .<br>(CSV) Underlying dataset in CSV format<br>Keywords: Demographic factors, Attitude, Knowledge, Persons with special needs, COVID-19, Counselling and social policy
Journal of Education and Practice, 2013
This study examined family and teachers factors as determinant of career decisions of adolescents... more This study examined family and teachers factors as determinant of career decisions of adolescents with hearing impairment in Ogun State, Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. The participants involved 77 families of adolescents with hearing impairments and 69 teachers of adolescent with hearing impairment selected from three special secondary schools in Ogun State based on purposive sampling. Two self-designed instruments and Test of Student Knowledge on Career Decision (TSKCD) Scale were used to collect data. Four research questions were formulated and Data were analyzed using Pearson product moment correlation and Regression. The results revealed that family and teachers factors have a positive significant in the career decisions of adolescents with hearing impairment. It was also indicated that family factors has a significant relative effect on career decisions while teachers factors showed no significant in the career decisions of adolescents with hearing impairments. Based on these findings, it was recommended that concerted efforts of families and teachers of adolescents with hearing should be employed to enhance the career decisions of adolescents with hearing impairments by giving them the necessary support, encouragement and motivation, also specialist, career counselors and curriculum experts should include programmes.
African Journal For the Psychological Studies of Social Issues, Jan 23, 2014
Adolescence is a distinct stage of life that has attracted the attention of researchers globally.... more Adolescence is a distinct stage of life that has attracted the attention of researchers globally. In 1904, Hall presented the idea of adolescence as a period of storm and stress. Sequel to this idea, increased empirical data caused this notion to stagger. However, the internalizing and externalizing problem behaviours of adolescence indicate that this idea cannot just be discarded in the light of modern psychology. Stress, which is the physical, mental and emotional human response to a particular stimulus, can arise in adolescents with reading disabilities as a result of hormonal changes of adolescence and the increased demands of school. Stress can actually exacerbate signs of learning disabilities that adolescents were able to manage or mask when they were younger. Some adolescents encounter problems with decoding, fluency and comprehension. Others may exhibit motivational issues, behaviour concerns and self-concept problems that may result in dropping out of school. This present paper therefore recognized and described the storm and stress of adolescents with reading disabilities. Teaching and parental role implications of the present concept were discussed. In the same vein, strategies for fostering reading skills of adolescents with reading disabilities at word recognition level, language comprehension and the use of self-regulatory and executive processes were discussed. Above all, it was emphasized that for adolescents with reading disabilities to become competent readers, teachers should provide a balanced reading instruction by ensuring that instruction is explicit, scaffolded and sequenced. Parents should support, encourage and assist adolescents' reading development by acting as teachers, showing parental love and care, encouraging uptake of challenges and participating in in-school programmes.
Efficient skills in reading comprehension enable secondary school students to make meaningful and... more Efficient skills in reading comprehension enable secondary school students to make meaningful and remarkable advancements in their studies. However, many students with learning disabilities struggle with reading comprehension and consequently obtain low grades in their academic pursuits. This paper pointed out that improvement in reading comprehension and academic achievement among secondary school students with learning disabilities is possible through engaging the students in collaborative learning activities within reading comprehension context. The paper therefore highlighted the principles that guide collaborative classrooms and the benefits of student collaboration in reading comprehension context. Evidence-based interventions that emphasize collaboration such as cooperative learning, peer tutoring, reciprocal teaching, collaborative strategic reading, and directed reading-thinking activity were discussed. Recommendations were made which include that teacher should ensure that they infuse collaboration into reading comprehension lessons of students with learning disabilities by making use of a variety of teaching strategies that stress collaboration, assigning roles to group members and ensuring that group members adhere to the laid down rules for the groups.
Journal of International Special Needs Education, 2013
This study examined the prevalence of dyslexia and dyscalculia among persons with academic defici... more This study examined the prevalence of dyslexia and dyscalculia among persons with academic deficits in English Language and Mathematics in public primary schools in Ibadan metropolis. A correlational survey study, sampling 477 pupils who were between the ages of eight and 12 years, and in 4th and 5th grades with the use of four research instruments- the Myklebust Pupil Rating Scale (MPRS), the Slosson Intelligence Test- Revised Third Edition (SIT-R3), the Test of Pupil Reading Abilities Test (TPRA) and the Mathematical Abilities Test (MAT) was adopted. It was discovered that dyslexia and dyscalculia were prevalent among pupils with academic deficits in English Language and Mathematics, and that pupils with both dyslexia and dyscalculia are in the larger percentage. It was also discovered that learning disabilities, dyslexia and dyscalculia were not peculiar to any gender. Persons with academic deficits in English language and mathematics should be screened for either dyslexia or dys...
Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Reading is a fundamental skill required for effective participation in academic tasks. This resea... more Reading is a fundamental skill required for effective participation in academic tasks. This research investigated the significant main effects of phonics and neurological impress instructional methods on the reading skills of pupils with learning disabilities. A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group design with a 3 x 2 factorial matrix was used. Purposive sampling was used to select forty-five students with learning disabilities (N = 45, M = 22, F = 23, Mean age = 9.3) from three government-owned primary schools. Six instruments were used: Pupil Rating Scale (Revised) (r = 0.75); Picture Vocabulary Test (r = 0.75); PALS-PreK (r = 0.82); Informal Reading Inventory (r = 0.70); and Umolu&#39; s One Hundred High Frequency Words (r = 0.85). The data collected were analysed using the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and an estimated marginal mean score of 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that treatment had a significant main effect on the reading skills of students with learning disabilities (F (2, 42) = 43.178, p&lt; .05, η2 =.762), but gender had no significant main effect. It is recommended that phonics and neurological impress instructional methods be adopted when teaching reading skills to pupils with learning disabilities.
Emerald Open Research
This study investigated demographic factors, attitude and knowledge of persons with special needs... more This study investigated demographic factors, attitude and knowledge of persons with special needs towards COVID-19 in Nigeria between 12th and 25th May, 2020. This cross-sectional online survey was conducted among 72 persons with special needs purposively selected from the six geo-political zones in Nigeria. A questionnaire comprising questions on demographic information (three), knowledge (24) and attitude (28) towards COVID-19 was completed via Google forms by the participants (r = 0.78). There were more males (51, 70.8%) than females (21, 29.2%) and the most common age group was 34-44 years (37.5%). The number of participants with a hearing impairment was 34 (47.2%) and the number with a visual impairment was 26 (36.1%). The results indicate adequate knowledge about the characteristics of COVID-19. It was found that 98.6% of the participants had heard about COVID-19; 94.4% were aware that COVID-19 is a contagious disease, 91.7% stated that COVID-19 is a virus and 88.9% reported c...
Journal of Humanities Therapy
Journal of Humanities Therapy
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