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    Good Practices and Challenges of Technical Vocational Education and Training Institutions in supporting Students with Disabilities in Gambella Regional State
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-06) Gedamu, Melaku; Hagos, Belay (PhD)
    Persons with disabilities experiences good practices and also do not equally and fully participated due to different obstacles in the education of TVET colleges of Gambella Regional State.For this research four TVET institutions, two from Government and two from faith based were selected because of they were the only available and accessible in the Region and also to Students with Disabilities (SWDs). Purposively sampling of sixteen students four from each TVET college were drown and from these eight students were students with physical disabilities while the remaining were without disabilities. In addition to this using the same design eighteen trainers, four TVET principals and one regional TVET bureau head office manager were selected .Data were collected using unstructured face to face interviews, focuses group discussions and observations of check list. Data categorizing and organization of major emerging themes and sub themes was done. After repeated reviewing of the data, themes were identified. These were-Good practices and Challenges of TVET institutions in supporting SWDs and policy practices and gaps in TVET institutions for educations of SWDs of Gambella Regional State .The findings revealed and identified that presence of good practices in TVET institutions for SWDs. On the contrary there were different challenges and also policy practice and gaps during implementations of TVET skills for SWDs as the result of being students with physical disabilities and obstacles leaded them to develop several problems because of unable to access and addressed the needs of SWDs in all the given TVET institutions of the research.