Appraisal of Sensory Awareness Training on the Daily Living Skills of Persons with Deaf-Blindness in Some Communities in the North West Region of Cameroon
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Orientation and Mobility Training and daily living skills are essential skills in the education, rehabilitation and daily living skills of persons with deaf-blindness. So, there is a strong feeling that there is an impact between sensory awareness training as an indicator of Orientation and Mobility on the daily living skills of persons with deaf-blindness. It was discovered that persons with deaf-blindness have problems with participation in daily living skills. They have difficulties doing toileting independently. Eating and dressing skills are equally a problem to them. The use of sensory awareness skills is a problem to both the persons with deaf-blindness and the community at large as they are under trained in educating persons with deaf-blindness in the mastery of sensory awareness skills. There is also the lack of skills in interacting with others in the community and participating in daily living chores using the senses of vision and hearing. This results in the exempted of persons with deaf-blindness from formal education that is free for everybody, thus remain wanting in the community and depend on others in the achievements of their endeavors. The research design used is the pre – test post – test experimental research design. Ten samples were randomly selected. Purposive, snow ball, accidental and stratified sampling technique was used based on the bases of age of onset of the impairment (congenital and adventitious). The instruments use was interviews and observational checklist. Data was presented using descriptive statistics, frequency tables and charts. Quantitative data was entered using Epidata version 3.1 (2008) and the statistical package of social sciences (SPSS) version 21.0 (2012). Analysis was done using the systematic process of thematic analysis. Crombach Alpha Reliability coefficient was used to determine if the internal consistency of the responses was satisfactory to an acceptable level. Based on this assumption, Alpha should not be less than 0.5 (crombach 1951). The chi-square of equality and proportion was used to compare between parents responds and observation. Hypothesis was tested using the logistic regression model (LRM) Nana (2018) and the independent t-test to obtain the correlation between Orientation and Mobility skills and daily living skills of persons with deaf-blindness. The results reveals that, before intervention and training, the impact between sensory awareness as an indicator of O&M and the daily living skills of persons with deaf-blindness was not very significant (11) [t = -4.098, d.f. = 8, p-value = 0.003]. After intervention, there was a significant impact between sensory awareness as an indicator of O&M and the daily living skills of persons with deaf-blindness (11) [t = -4.098, d.f. = 8, p-value = 0.003] and vice versa for spatial concept, sighted guide and the white cane. It was recommended that, the Government should put inclusive special education laws in to practice and meet the needs of persons with deaf-blindness so as to enhance their daily living skills.
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Sensory awareness, daily living skills, deaf-blindness