Sokongan dan halangan yang dihadapi pelajar-pelajar kurang upaya di sebuah institusi pengajian tinggi di Malaysia

This research was carried out to identify supports received and barriers faced by students with disabilities in an institute of higher education in Malaysia. Respondents for this research were students with vision impairment, two students with hearing impairment, and six students with physical impai...

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Main Authors:	Hasnah Toran, Mohd Hanafi Mohd Yasin, Mohd Mokhtar Tahar, Norasuzaini Sujak Abstrak Kajian
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Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2009
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spelling	ukm-14862016-12-14T06:29:36Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1486/ Sokongan dan halangan yang dihadapi pelajar-pelajar kurang upaya di sebuah institusi pengajian tinggi di Malaysia Hasnah Toran, Mohd Hanafi Mohd Yasin, Mohd Mokhtar Tahar, Norasuzaini Sujak Abstrak Kajian, This research was carried out to identify supports received and barriers faced by students with disabilities in an institute of higher education in Malaysia. Respondents for this research were students with vision impairment, two students with hearing impairment, and six students with physical impairment. Data from students with hearing and physical impairment were collected in written form while data from students with vision impairment were collected through interviews. Among the issues brought up by these students were inaccessible physical infrastructures on campus, lack of sign language interpreters for students with hearing impairment, lack of computers accessible for people with vision impairment, assistance in the library, accessible transportation system, issues of bureaucracy, and lack of empathy from the campus community. In terms of support, respondents reported that they depended on close friends to assist them; to follow lectures for students with hearing impairment and to move from one place to another for students with vision impairment. To improve the quality of service and facilities for students with disabilities in institutes of higher education in Malaysia, among the suggestions put forward by these respondents were to increase the awareness of issues faced by students with disabilities among the campus community and improve their understanding, to set up a council that could communicate their needs to the university administrators in taking steps towards a more positive physical and social environment on campus in order to provide an equal opportunity for these students to achieve their optimal potential Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2009-07 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1486/1/HASNAH_1.pdf Hasnah Toran, and Mohd Hanafi Mohd Yasin, and Mohd Mokhtar Tahar, and Norasuzaini Sujak Abstrak Kajian, (2009) Sokongan dan halangan yang dihadapi pelajar-pelajar kurang upaya di sebuah institusi pengajian tinggi di Malaysia. AJTLHE: ASEAN Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 1 (2). pp. 18-29. ISSN 1985-5826 http://www.ukm.my/jtlhe/
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description	This research was carried out to identify supports received and barriers faced by students with disabilities in an institute of higher education in Malaysia. Respondents for this research were students with vision impairment, two students with hearing impairment, and six students with physical impairment. Data from students with hearing and physical impairment were collected in written form while data from students with vision impairment were collected through interviews. Among the issues brought up by these students were inaccessible physical infrastructures on campus, lack of sign language interpreters for students with hearing impairment, lack of computers accessible for people with vision impairment, assistance in the library, accessible transportation system, issues of bureaucracy, and lack of empathy from the campus community. In terms of support, respondents reported that they depended on close friends to assist them; to follow lectures for students with hearing impairment and to move from one place to another for students with vision impairment. To improve the quality of service and facilities for students with disabilities in institutes of higher education in Malaysia, among the suggestions put forward by these respondents were to increase the awareness of issues faced by students with disabilities among the campus community and improve their understanding, to set up a council that could communicate their needs to the university administrators in taking steps towards a more positive physical and social environment on campus in order to provide an equal opportunity for these students to achieve their optimal potential
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author	Hasnah Toran, Mohd Hanafi Mohd Yasin, Mohd Mokhtar Tahar, Norasuzaini Sujak Abstrak Kajian,
spellingShingle	Hasnah Toran, Mohd Hanafi Mohd Yasin, Mohd Mokhtar Tahar, Norasuzaini Sujak Abstrak Kajian, Sokongan dan halangan yang dihadapi pelajar-pelajar kurang upaya di sebuah institusi pengajian tinggi di Malaysia
author_facet	Hasnah Toran, Mohd Hanafi Mohd Yasin, Mohd Mokhtar Tahar, Norasuzaini Sujak Abstrak Kajian,
author_sort	Hasnah Toran,
title	Sokongan dan halangan yang dihadapi pelajar-pelajar kurang upaya di sebuah institusi pengajian tinggi di Malaysia
title_short	Sokongan dan halangan yang dihadapi pelajar-pelajar kurang upaya di sebuah institusi pengajian tinggi di Malaysia
title_full	Sokongan dan halangan yang dihadapi pelajar-pelajar kurang upaya di sebuah institusi pengajian tinggi di Malaysia
title_fullStr	Sokongan dan halangan yang dihadapi pelajar-pelajar kurang upaya di sebuah institusi pengajian tinggi di Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Sokongan dan halangan yang dihadapi pelajar-pelajar kurang upaya di sebuah institusi pengajian tinggi di Malaysia
title_sort	sokongan dan halangan yang dihadapi pelajar-pelajar kurang upaya di sebuah institusi pengajian tinggi di malaysia
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2009
url	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1486/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1486/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1486/1/HASNAH_1.pdf
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