Strategies Employed By Counsellors In Helping Students Living With Disability In Public Secondary Schools In Enugu State, Nigeria
Egbo Chinonye Emmanuella
Department Of Guidance And Counselling, Faculty Of Education, Enugu State University Of Science And Technology (Esut) Enugu State, Nigeria
Keywords: Strategies Employed, Counsellors, Students & Disability
Abstract
The study examined the strategies employed by counsellors for helping the students living with disability in public secondary schools in Enugu State. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The researcher adopted a census survey research design for this study. The population for this study comprised 111 respondents made up of (36male and 75 female) counsellors in the 295 secondary schools owned by Enugu State government. There was no sampling in this study. The instrument for data collection was a researcher developed questionnaire titled “Strategies Employed by Counsellors for Helping Students Living with Disability Questionnaire (SACHSLWDQ)”. The instrument for the study was validated by three experts. Two of them were from the Department of Guidance and Counselling and one from Department of Mathematics and Computer Education, all from Faculty of Education, Enugu State University of Science and technology (ESUT), Enugu. The result of the trial test was used to determine the internal consistency reliability of the instrument using Cronbach Alpha method. The reliability coefficients for the various clusters are: Cluster A is 0.79; Cluster B is 0.82. The overall reliability coefficient of the instrument was 0.80 which makes the instrument reliable and considered appropriate for data collection for the study. The instrument was administered directly to the respondents using four briefed research assistants. Mean scores and standard deviation were used in answering the research questions, while t-test statistic was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that humanistic counselling strategy is used by counsellors for helping students to a great extent. Cognitive counselling strategy is used by counsellors for helping students living with disability counselling to a great extent. Based on the findings of the study, the researcher recommended among others that government should encourage teachers to adopt appropriate counselling strategies in handling students living with disability in secondary schools.