Voices of out of School Children with Disabilities in Pakistan

Autor/inn/en	Manzoor, Afaf; Hameed, Abdul; Nabeel, Tanzila
Titel	Voices of out of School Children with Disabilities in Pakistan
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 16 (2016), S.1099-1103 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1471-3802
DOI	10.1111/1471-3802.12256
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Disabilities; Student Surveys; Student Attitudes; Out of School Youth; Inclusion; Data Collection; Interviews; School Readiness; Admission Criteria; Poverty; Child Health; School Location; Proximity; Special Schools; Academic Accommodations (Disabilities); Statistical Analysis; Children; Adolescents; Pakistan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Handicap; Behinderung; Schülerbefragung; Schülerverhalten; Inklusion; Data capture; Datensammlung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Admission; Admission procedures; Zulassungsbedingung; Zulassungsverfahren; Zulassung; Armut; Schulgelände; Lebensnähe; Special school; Sonderschule; Statistische Analyse; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher
Abstract	In Pakistan, 96% children with disabilities are out of school and are unreached for any educational services. According to UNESCO (2010), the unreached are those children and youth who are of school age but not attending school for some reasons. Some of these children may have never been to school; others may have attended school but eventually were dropped out. Reaching out these marginalised children is imperative for the country like Pakistan that intends to meet the goals of Education for All (EFA) by 2015. A survey was conducted to identify the causes of being out of school in order to propose necessary measures for their inclusion. The researchers conveniently selected 433 unreached children with disabilities across all Tehsils of districts Sheikhupura and Kasur to document the voices of out of school children and their families. Children and their parents were contacted to collect the data through structured interviews. Both qualitative and quantitative analyses were performed to answer the questions. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for the analysis of quantitative data. The study revealed that lack of school readiness, admission policy, poverty, child health conditions, distance from home to school and overprotection of children with disabilities are the main reasons (in rank order) for being out of school. It was also found that although existing special schools in both districts were providing their services through curriculum adaptation, adaptive assessment techniques, teacher trainings, student's leisure and recreational activities, but still had no capacity to accommodate all the unreached children at Tehsil level with limited budget, staff, physical infrastructure and transport facility. The study recommended that unless the regular schools are not improved through inclusive approaches, the problem would remain as such. [Paper presented at the Inclusive and Supportive Education IV Conference Congresso Internacional da Pró-Inclusão (8th, Lisbon, Portugal, July 26-29, 2016).] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01