| Summary: | Background: Learners with severe intellectual disability are those with a serious
condition of learning disability due to the· limitation in intellectual functioning.
These learners participate in the National Curriculum Statement (NCS) approach
since there is no special curriculum for them. The purpose of this study was to
investigate the characteristics of severe intellectual disability and to find out
whether learners of this condition are able to achieve the learning outcomes and
assessment standards prescribed by the NCS. To get access to the different age
groups of learners, the study investigated both the Middle and Senior phases of
the two schools.
Method: Ethnographical study of qualitative research was followed. Data for the
study were collected using class observations and educators' questionnaires.
Data from the related literature review were also collected.
Results: The results revealed that learners with severe intellectual disability could
not achieve the learning outcomes and -assessment standards prescribed by the
NCS within the whole school period, 8 to 21 years.
Conclusion: Learners with severe intellectual disability could not benefit from
participating in the standard school curriculum. Suggestions were given from
both the empirical study and the literature on the curriculum that would provide
better learning opportunities for learners with severe intellectual disability. === Thesis (M.Ed.) North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2010
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