Abstract:
he purpose of this study was to explore the educational practices and challenges of student’ with
visual impairment in an integrated setting of Kimir Dingy second cycle primary school. The total
participants were 22 those were, 8 students with visual impairment, 2 principals, 8 regular teachers and
4 parents of students with visual impairment. In this study, the researcher used a case study design under
qualitative approach. To recruit the participants, the researcher has employed the purposive sampling
technique. The researcher also employed interview w, focus group discussion observation and document
analysis to collect the data and topical code analysis technique was employed. As the research
finding shows, in most cases students with visual impairment were unable to familiarize the
regular teachers teaching style; low participation in co-curricular activities; lack of educational
materials and resources; teachers lack of modifying the contents; unmodified instructional methods;
teachers lack of training; environment inaccessibility; feeling of hopeless; lack of parental support;
unmodified assessment system and teachers perception are the challenges but two students with visual
impairments educational practices were better in the integrated setting. students with visual impairment
who are learning in that integrated classroom experienced severe educational challenges with regard to
lack of educational material and resource provision; environmental inaccessibility; lack of regular
teachers’ educational support; lack of parental support and low level of regular teachers’ classroom
instruction are strongly affecting the students learning and academic achievement in the integrated
classroom. Therefore, the study recommends that the regular teachers in the integrated school should
have supported those groups of students by providing appropriate learning materials as well as the
curriculum should be modified to suit the special needs of the students with visual impairment. In
addition, the regular school should know the importance of teachers and parents support for the
educational development of students with visual impairment. It is better to integrate students with
visual impairment not only physically, but they should be included fully in educationally.