TEACHERS’ FACILITATION IN UTILIZATION OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY IN PROMOTING LEARNING OF STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENT AT POST GRADUATE LEVEL

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Published Jan 6, 2024
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Vol. 6 No. 4 (2023): Jahan-e-Tahqeeq

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Hira Aslam,Sohail Asghar,Dr. Muhammad Nadeem Iqbal,Muhammad Usman
Department of Educational Research and Assessment, UO, Pakistan

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Assistive technology plays a significant role in the learning of students with visual impairment. This study aims to find out teachers’ facilitation in utilization of assistive technology in promoting learning of students with visual impairment at post graduate level. This research is basically descriptive in nature and for the collection of data survey method is used. The questionnaire is used to collect data from participants. The population of this study consisted of the 27 male and 22 female students and 22 male and 10 females’ teachers of special education department from university of Okara, PU, Lahore, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, University of Education, Lahore. A questionnaire self-structured and self-validated including 34 items for teachers and 15 items for students is used to investigate teachers’ facilitation in utilization of assistive technology in promoting learning of students with visual impairment at post graduate level. Sample is selected by census sampling technique. The findings reveal that small number of assistive technology is available for visually impaired students in universities and to some extent are being used in the universities. The finding also revealed that assistive technology plays a positive role in promoting the learning of students with visual impairment

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