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This study was designed to ascertain the integration of the influence of strategies for supporting students with Autism Spectrum Disorder in mainstream classrooms Among students in Oredo L.G.A, Edo State. Four (4) research questions were formulated to guide the study.
The study adopted a descriptive survey. The total population of special teachers in Oredo L.G.A is 50 teachers from Two (2) schools for special needs children,public secondary schools in the sampled area. A total number of 50 teacher’s made up the population of the study. The random sampling technique was used to select the respondents for this study. The research instrument for the study was a Questionnaire titled: “The influence of strategies for supporting students with Autism Spectrum Disorder in mainstream classrooms Among students in Oredo L.G.A, Edo State (TISSSASD)”, which was distributed to the respondents and collected immediately after completion from respondents. The simple percentage and mean score was used in computing the responses of the questionnaire items. To account for the reliability of the study, the Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient was used which gave a value of 0.68.
At the end of the study, 0.602 was obtained for the current strategies implemented in mainstream classrooms to support students with ASD,0.701 for effectiveness in addressing diverse learning needs of students with ASD,0.639 for the challenges faced by educators in mainstream secondary schools and 0.671 for Effectiveness of existing strategies on the learning outcome of students with ASD indicating that the instrument is reliable.
