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ERIC Number: ED615538
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 10
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ISSN: ISSN-0975-0665
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Prevalence of Learning Difficulties among School Students in Kerala
Online Submission, INSIGHT Journal of Applied Research in Education v20 n1 p83-92 2015
This study estimates the percentage of incidence of students who are categorised as Learning Disabled in schools of Kerala, along with estimating studying the prevalence of students categorised by schools as mentally Retarded (MR), Visually Impaired (VI), Autism, ADHD and Orthopedically Impaired and investigates perceived difficulties of schools in facilitating the inclusive education of these children. The sample is 31 government and government-aided schools drawn by simple random procedure from Kozhikode (n=14) and Malappuram (n=17) districts, covering 26382 students. There is variation among schools in the prevalence of students with LD and other impairments. In a school of an average size of 850, LD and other categories of SEN have near 40 students. In general, teachers categorise five per cent of students as belonging to SEN categories, half them being learning disabled (2.23%) and half belonging to MR, VI, Autism, ADHD, HI, and OI (2.53%). The incidence of SEN children assessed by this study surely is less than what can be expected in the population, as the study considered a share of the relevant age group who attend the school only. Implications are added.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: India
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