RESEARCH AND
PUBLICATIONS
Aside from Associational Conferences which the college has the
opportunity of hosting on several occasions, there has been an
Annual College National conference on Special Education.
This has provided staff of the college and other Special
Educators the opportunity to present useful research findings
relating to the needs of the handicapped annually. The proceedings
of such conferences have been turned into books by the College. Such
books published are:
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(a)
Current Researches on Special Education in Nigeria.
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(b)
Family, School, community and Government involvement
in Rehabilitation of the handicapped.
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(c)
Art Creativity and Information links in
Rehabilitation of the Handicapped.
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(d)
Science, Vocational and Technical Education in
Rehabilitation of the handicapped.
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(e)
Two other books (The Exceptional child in the
Nigerian Regular School and Supportive Personnel
in the Education of Exceptional Persons in Regular schools
are being produced as products of the 1995 National
Conference on Special Education.
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(f)
Issues in Coping with Disabilities Published in 2003
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(g)
Rehabilitation of the Disabled in Developing
Countries also Published in
2003
Still on research and
publications and in search for excellence, since 1996 the College
Management has put in place:
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(i)
a Twenty-Five thousand Naira (N25,000.00) grant for the
Best Academic Staff researcher of the year.
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(ii)
A minimum of Ten thousand Naira (N10,000.00) grant to any
member of academic staff whose manuscripts are judged by
external assessors as worthy of publishing and contributing to
knowledge.
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(iii)
A Twenty thousand Naira (N20,000.00) grant to each of the
six (6) schools in the college to organise School Annual Public
Lecture. The
proceedings which shall also be published by the College.
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(iv)
The provision of furnished, air-conditioned research
center in the College |Library for the academic pursuit of
staff.
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(v)
Commencement of Production of textbooks and journals in
Special Education by SPED PUBLISHERS, a new publishing outfit of
the College.
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(vi)
Initiation of collaborative programmes with institutions
and organizations outside the country for collaborative
research, publication, staff exchange and staff development and
outreach programmes.
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(vii)
A workshop on techniques in writing an Acceptable
Research Proposal was jointly organized by the college
Management and the Academic Staff |Union of the college in 1997,
to acquaint staff with modern approaches to fundable research
proposals.
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(viii)
One of the journals being published by different
associations or departments in the College had been adopted as
an official journal of the college qualifying the journal for
full funding and quality control by the College.
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