International Journal of General Studies Education (JOGSE) is a publication from the School of General Studies Education, Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo, Oyo State, Nigeria.
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MAXIMIZING COMPUTER AND INTERACTIVE BOARDUSAGE IN THE EDUCATION OF HEARING IMPAIRED STUDENTS IN VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION
In mainstreaming people with special needs, particularly hearing impaired students use sign language as a means of communication, while mere voice is used as a medium of communicating instructions in a normal-teaching physical class lecture. The sole teaching is carried out by mere voice of the lecturers while sign language is adopted to convey the teaching to hearing impaired students. As a result, sights of hearing impaired students become the only receptive organ of communication, while regular students’ use both sense of sight and hearing as key organs of receiving instructional contents. This singular inability deprives the hearing impaired students the opportunities to benefit from verbal expressions except for the use of sign language. In schools of Vocation and Technical Education, students are trained in entrepreneurship and learning taken place mostly through demonstration by lecturers while hearing impaired students are indecisive about whom to focus on between the interpreters and the lecturers. Consequently, this study proffers maximization of interactive whiteboard and computer in the education of hearing impaired students in School of Vocational and Technical Education as they are faced with diverted attention.