Challenges In Teaching And Learning Of Learners With Hearing Impairment In An Integrated Education Programme In Public Primary Schools In Nairobi County, Kenya

ABSTRACT Including children with hearing impairment in mainstream schools has generated a lot of debate across the globe with many campaigning for the rights of these children to be educated separately in special schools in which they can access information through sign Language. Pupils with hearing impairment have been found to lag behind in academics as compared to the visually and physically impaired on account of their problems in communication, socialization, curriculum adaptation, modifications and sign language interpretation. This study investigated challenges in teaching of the heari…