Secondary School Teachers And Students Perception Of Problems, Needs And Implication Of Special Education

The title of this study is Secondary School Teachers and students perception of problems, needs and implication of special education (A case study of Ezeagu Local Government Area). The researchers are to identify the contribution of secondary school teachers and students on special education. The 25 secondary schools under this study has the total of 7, 502, (2596 for junior students, 4540 for senior students, 142 for junior staff and 224 for senior staff). A sample size of 40 were randomly selected (14 junior students, 24 senior students, 1 junior staff and 1 senior staff) while frequency and percentage are used for data analysis. The researchers used both primary and secondary source of data to gather information for the study and Questionnaire was used to collect data.

From the study, the researchers discovered that special education has an impact to a very extent on the lives of people with disability at Ezeagu L.G.A, school at Ezeagu L.G.A are equipped for special education to a very small extent and the effort of the government towards providing the needs of special education in Ezeagu L.G.A is to a small extent which is need to improve.