Poultry keeping skills for learners with deafblindness

Poultry keeping prepares learners to engage in income-generating activities. The learner will be equipped with poultry keeping skills such as measuring feeds, watering, maintaining cleanliness, collecting eggs, selling, keeping records, etc. in order to prepare him/her earn a living and live an independent life.

Interventions

•  Providing materials and tools to the learner 
• Guiding the learner in identifying poultry 
• Supporting the learner to orient self to the poultry area
• Guiding the learner to carry out poultry keeping activities
• Demonstrating various poultry keeping activities
• Guiding the learner to clean the poultry house 
• Supporting the learner to collect, store and sell poultry products
• Guiding the learner in keeping poultry records
• Reinforcing learner’s positive behaviour 
• Recording achievements and progress
• Contacting veterinary doctors

Achievement Indicators

The learner can:

• participate in poultry keeping activities such as feeding birds, cleaning poultry area, collecting eggs, etc.
• improve income levels.

Resources/Materials

• Real birds
• Trays
• Feeding troughs/feeders
• Drinkers
• Ropes
• Water
• Wheelbarrow
• Spade
• Sacks
• Object of reference
• Calendar system
• Gumboots
• Poultry shade
• Poultry feeds
• Sprayers
• Acaricides

The Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Sports (MoEST&S) through the National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) recognise the fact that learners who are deafblind and not in school require a specialised curriculum and support materials.

Kyambogo University, a public institution in Uganda, boasts an inclusive education system that prioritizes the well-being and development of learners with deafblindness.