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The purpose of this study was to ascertain the teachers' views on factors contributing to low reading levels among Mozambican primary school pupils. In Mozambique, in the last two decades, the government has been working hard to increase school access in primary school, reduce and eliminate...

The study investigated the challenges of HIV and AIDS counselling in basic schools as expressed by school counselors, school managers class teachers and pupils. It also examined the conditions of the counseling rooms as well as the record keeping of the sessions conducted by counselors. The...

This report is based on the student's attachment and work experience with Christian Children's Fund (CCF), Zambia. The student's main area of concern was the child sponsorship program of CCF. The child sponsorship programme emphasizes on building and strengthening partnership between the child...

Imprisonment of parents causes many hardships for children. Children of incarcerated mothers usually experience disruptions in their home environments and child care arrangements and they usually also experience social stigmatisation. According to Senanayake et al (2001), the prison environment...

The relationship between education and performance on neuropsychological tests has been established (Dotson, Kitner-Triolo, Evans, and Zonderman, 2009). It has also been found that ill-educated but cognitively healthy individuals get lower scores on neuropsychology test than mildly impaired but...

Introduction: The field of neuropsychology is considered to be fairly new. It uses different psychological tests for various reasons including diagnosis assessment and rehabilitation. However, these tests were developed mostly in western countries and may not be used in other countries easily....

This study evaluates the construct validity of three non¬verbal tests - Panga Munthu, Porteus Maze and Nonverbal Conservation Tests - to be used in identifying and assessing the mentally sub¬normal children in Zambia. The subjects for this study included average normal school children aged 7-8...

The influence of demographic factors such as education, age and gender on neuropsychological test performance has received a great deal of attention in literature. Even if there is a general consensus with regard to the importance of education’s influence on cognitive functioning measured by the...

Aims: The nature of the relationship between moderate alcohol consumption and cognitive functioning has attracted a considerable amount of attention overtime. However, the pattern of the relationship remains uncertain. Some studies have reported a beneficial relationship between moderate alcohol...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the difference in reading Performance between the grade three hearing impaired pre- scholars and non Pre- scholars, in 2 selected basic schools of Lusaka Urban. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used. A sample of 20 hearing impaired children...