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Item Counselling intervention for parents of special needs children(2010) Adelodun, G. A.Over the years, increased awareness of difficulties facing parents of special needs children has been the concern of professionals. Parents are usually disturbed and psychologically maladjusted with the arrival of such children in the family. The arrival in the family obviously affects financial, social, educational and emotional state of such families. As a result of the devastating effect of having special needs children in the family, counselling intervention for parents of such children become inevitable. This paper examines the reaction of parents to the arrival of a child with disability in the family, practical counselling for parents with special needs children which include: counselling parents with gifted and talented children, counselling parents of children with visual impairment, counselling parents of children with learning disabilities, counselling parents of children with hearing impairment, counselling parents with mentally retarded children as well as counselling parents of children with} speech and language disorder. It is recommended that parents should seek early medical attention as soon as they suspect any problem or disability in any of their children. It is also recommended that once the medical doctor confirms the disability, professional Guidance Counsellor must be consulted to counsel the parents on the next line of action.Item Perception, attitude and use of indigenous stories among yoruba parents in Lagos State, Nigeria(Joytal Printing Press, Ibadan, 2020) Akintemi, E. O.; Amosun, M. D.In the traditional African societies, indigenous storytelling was a regidar practice where children were told stories by their parents and other members of the family and community. Storytelling played an important role in the family and it was a daily activity in the evening. Recently, many Nigerians do not like to speak their indigenous languages with their children and as a result, these children may not know their indigenous stories even though they know lots of foreign stories. This study therefore, investigated parents’ perception, attitude and use of Yoruba indigenous stories in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Four research questions were raised and answered. Three hypotheses were formidated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. Two hundred and eighty nine (289) Yoruba parents were purposively selected from both public and private schools in Lagos State. Self- designed questionnaire with reliability index of (a -0.84) was used to collect data for the study. Frequency counts, percentage, mean and standard deviation and t-test were used to analyze the data collected. Findings indicated that parents’ perception and attitude to Yoruba indigenous storytelling is positive, however the frequency of use is still below expectation. Parents with children in public schools significantly used indigenous stories better than parents with children in private schools. Based on the findings it was recommended among other things that storytelling in indigenous language should be used at home by parents, also Nigerian authors should be encouraged to write indigenous storybooks for children.Item Attitudes of parents toward their children with speech disorders in Oyo State, Nigeria(National Association for Exceptional Children, 2015) Osisanya, A.; Adeniyi, S. O.Good speech is essential to both social and academic lives. However, when speech loss its quality, it attracts unnecessary reaction from the listeners which may eventually cause psychological trauma to the affected person. Reaction to speech disorders vary from place to place and culture to culture and this has been the major concern of special educators and speech specialists. It is on this note that this study investigates attitudes of parents towards their children with speech disorders in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study employed survey research design. A total number of fifty (50) parents whose children have significant speech disorders were purposefully selected. A questionnaire tagged Parent Attitudinal Scale for Special Disorders with reliability coefficient of 0.71 was used for data collection. The findings revealed that parent’s dispositions to speech disorders were negative as there was no significant difference between the attitudes of male and female parents toward speech disorders of their children. However, there was significant different between the reaction of elite and illustrates parents towards speech disorder. Based on these finding, it was recommended that there should be mass awareness about the implication of negative reaction and proper education about early intervention to stem the tide.