ENHANCING ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION THROUGH THE USE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY AMONG WOMEN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS IN NIGERIA

Abstract

Women entrepreneurs have in recent times been identified as catalysts and novel contraptions for growth as well as uprising luminaries bringing prosperity and improved welfare in several developing economies. Eighty per cent of the world's anticipated 650 million individuals living with frailties reside in developing economies, with the largest chunk below poverty line. The involvement rate of incapacitated women in the labour market is ominously lower than that of incapacitated men (16.6 per cent and 52.6 per cent, respectively). Young women are excessively disadvantaged in the employment world; they are sometimes marginalized for being young, female and impaired. Technology, thankfully, has an essential contribution to make in generating decent jobs for individuals with disabilities and their incorporation into the labour force. This paper therefore attempts to explore and review the role of entrepreneurship education in the tutelage of female students with special needs and the role of technological device in their integration into their workplace. This paper therefore attempt to explore and review the place of entrepreneurship education in the education of female students with special needs and the role of technological device in their integration into their workplace. It also examined the impact of the technological devices since their introduction for some female students in the schools for persons with special needs. Primary data were collected from 50 respondents from two special needs school in Ibadan Oyo State and two special needs school in Osogbo, Osun State Nigeria who have been provided with some of this technological devices. The study found that 80% of the respondents found the device useful and have better output than the time without the device. The100% of their instructors agreed on the improved output of their students. Passing rate has improved with about 50% in all the schools sampled. Suggestions and laudable recommendations that will further enrich the full execution of entrepreneurship tutelage in these unique schools for optimal achievement and selfsustenance were then provided.