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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION Vol 26, No: 3, 2011Our Move: Using Chess to Improve Math Achievement for Students Who ReceiveSpecial Education Services……………………………………………………………………………...181David C. Barrett & Wade W. FishOutcomes of Students with Disabilities in a Developing Country: Tobago……………………………194Sheilah M. PaulPrincipals Who Understand Applied Behavior Analysis Perceive They Are BetterAble to Support Educators Who Teach Students with Autism………………………………………….212Vito Loiacono & Anthony PalumboSchool Disaster Planning for Children with Disabilities: A Critical Review of the Literature................223Helen J. Boon, Lawrence H. Brown, Komla Tsey, Richard Speare, Paul Pagliano, Kim Usher &Brenton ClarkSocial Skills of Children in the U.S. with Comorbid Learning Disabilities and AD/HD………………238Thomas J. Smith & Steve WallaceTeachers’ Use of Motivational Utterances in Special Education in NorwegianCompulsory Schooling. A Contribution Aimed At Fostering An Inclusive EducationFor Pupils With Learning Difficulties?....................................................................................................248Geir NyborgThe Balance Control of Children with and without Hearing Impairment in Singapore………………..260Tan Sing Yee Jernice, Karen P. Nonis & Chow Jia YiThe Taped Problems Intervention: Increasing the Math Fact Fluency of a Studentwith an Intellectual Disability…………………………………………………………………………..276Elizabeth McCallum & Ara J. SchmittYou know, Eunice, the world will never be the same after this………………………………………...285Chandra J. Foote & Bill Collins4
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION Vol 26, No: 3, 2011AN ASSESSMENT OF THE LEVEL OF INFLUENCE OF FAMILY LIFE AND HIV/AIDSEDUCATION ON KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND DECISION MAKING AMONGADOLESCENTS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT IN SOME STATES IN NIGERIAAdeniyi, S.O.Federal College of Education (Technical) AkokaOyewumi, A.M.Fakolade, O.A.University of IbadanThis study investigated knowledge, attitude and decision making on HIV/AIDS amongadolescents with hearing impairment in Oyo, Lagos and Kwara States. Seventy-sixrespondents participated in the study with age range between 16 and 20. The researchadopted a descriptive survey research design. Seventy-six students with hearingimpairment participated in the study. Three hypotheses were postulated and tested. Themain instrument use to gather data was Family Life and HIV/AIDS Educationinventory with reliability coefficient of 0.73. Chi square and student t-test methods atalpha level of 0.05 were used to analyze the data collected. The findings revealed thatthere were significant differences in knowledge, attitude and decision making ofadolescents with hearing impairment as a result of Family Life and HIV/AIDSEducation (FLHE). On the basis of the positive outcome, the study furtherrecommended some ways of improving the effectiveness of Family Life and HIV/AIDSEducation to be able to achieve the desired result among adolescents with hearingimpairment and adolescents generally.IntroductionBackground to the StudyNigerian adolescents are plagued with social and moral decadence ranging from indecent dressing, drugaddiction, pornographic attachment, hooliganism, abortion, teenage pregnancy to rising incidence ofsexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS. The causes have been traced to loss of values, rapidurbanization, modernization, economic depression, acculturation, parents’ lust after wealth and noninclusionof a well defined sexuality education in the curriculum. The effects of all these, according toAdemokoya and Oyewumi (2001), would lead to uninformed or misinformed youths. The healthimplication on this productive group may be devastating.In recent times, HIV/AIDS believed globally to constitute a health hazard has a high incidence amongadolescents. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection is a profound immune dysfunction thatallows for opportunistic infections in Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) patients. AcquiredImmunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has become a major global public health issue since its discoveryin 1981 (Osowole & Oladepo, 2001; Fakolade, Adeniyi, & Tella, 2005).UNAIDS (2006) reported that an estimate of 25 million people have been killed worldwide sinceHIV/AIDS was first discovered in December 1981. In Nigeria also, the infection has continued to spreadsteadily since it was first diagnosed in 1986. The prevalence level increases from 1.8% zero prevalencein 1999 to 3.8% in 1994, 4.5% in 1996, 5.4 in 1999 and 5.8% in 2001 with a high proportion amongadolescents aged 15-24 (Federal Ministry of Health & Social Science, 1999).The consistent and alarming growing rate among youths especially adolescents with and withoutdisabilities point to the fact that adolescents are sexually active and often take risks with little reflection5
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