Inclusive Education Policy as Platform of Library Services for Students with visual Impairment in Nigerian Univeristies: Lessons from the United States of America
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2018-06
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Zaid, Y.A
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Nigerian Library Association
Abstract
All over the world students with visual impairments face some difficulties as they seek to gain
admission into universities and to assert their position in campus setting as other sighted students
population. In one way or the other, they are often excluded from accessing equal opportunities
enjoyed by their peers in day-to-day campus life as a result of environmental, physical, legal and
institutional barriers found throughout the society. At present, most developed and some developing
nations have issued guidelines and policies generally for persons with visual impairment which
translates into inclusive library practices and transforming ways students with visual impairment
access and use information resources to support academic activities. Despite this development
there is consensus among Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals that access to
information resources and services for students with visual impairment in Nigerian universities are
not yet fully available. This study adopted a multi-site research approach from data collected
through questionnaires from 104 students with visual impairment in Nigerian university on how
universit;y libraries are meeting their' information and academic needs, and service deliver
mechanism deployed by university librarians in 12 universities in Nigeria and United States of
America (USA) .. The paper revealed the gap in inclusion of students with visual impairment in
accessing library resources to support academic activities in Nigerian universities and provide
suggestive guidelines for the formulation of inclusive practices in Nigerian universities libraries.
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Inclusive education , Assistive Technology , United States of America , Visual Impairment , Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Other social sciences::Library and information science
Citation
Zaid, Y.A (2018). Inclusive Education Policy as Platform of Library Services for Students with visual Impairment in Nigerian Univeristies: Lessons from the United States of America. Journal of the Nigerian Library Association, Vol.51(1), 52-73.