There are many different types of physical impairment which means that the children may have difficulty being able to move around and being able to handle writing equipment. Some may also have trouble speaking clearly. The types of impairment include:
ZIMSEC allows these learners to be supported in their examinations. They are allowed to:
Hearing Impairment includes children who have absolute or profound deafness as well as those that are hard of hearing. Their biggest problem is usually language; especially those that became deaf before they learned to speak or from birth. ZIMSEC has modified language in the question papers for these learners. The modification does not tamper with the technical language of the subject. Teachers of learners with deafness are also invited to mark the examinations, because they understand the language of the deaf best.
ZIMSEC allows these learners to be supported in their examinations. They are allowed to:
Visual impairment connotes those with total blindness and those with low vision. The Low Vision category encompasses learners with myopia, hyperopia and colour blindness among others. Learners with low vision due to albinism also fall within this category.
ZIMSEC allows these learners to be supported in their examinations. They are allowed to:
With low vision and Albinism
With total blindness
For learners with asthma, epilepsy, HIV/AIDS, nose bleeding and other ailments that may disturb concentration during examination taking, ZIMSEC allows teachers to time the period of the seizure (or attack or nose bleeding or any such disturbance). They then can allow the learner to continue writing when he/she recovers, as long as it is the same day. For those who do not recover within the same day, a process called aegrotation is then applied to estimate the learner’s grade using set components, as determined by the examiners.
All of these details on the examination provisions are in ZIMSEC’s “Handbook for Centres” which is available in all schools on pages 25-28, and also in Examinations Circulars.
Every other disability is treated as they are seen in the examination centres on a case by case basis. Through discussion and observation, an appropriate examination provision will be decided upon. The head of centre has a great responsibility to look out for individual cases and raise them with ZIMSEC with the goal that every child has equitable access to examinations in Zimbabwe.
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