PROVISION OF LIBRARY SERVICES AND INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN AS A MEANS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

It is often said that a society that is information poorly improvised is likely to experience poverty and retardation, in other spheres too, in the same vein, a developing country like Nigeria that abandon the provision of accurate, current and adequate use of instructional
materials and library services to its special needs people who form an integral part of the population is not likely to attain success in sustainable development. This paper observed that instructional materials and library services which are indispensable to learning are found inadequate and at times absent in most schools. This is why this paper deems is necessary that, there is need for the special need children to benefit from formal school teaching and learning by providing them with necessary Information and services. In the light of his, this paper examined some concepts, potentials of school library, and instructional materials challenges of instructional materials and library services and their educational services to the special needs children. This paper was rounded up with conclusion and recommendation among which are provision of adequate and current instructional materials and library services to the special needs children, incorporating school library programme into teachers training programme courses and encouraging rural librarianship.