Handicaps and the Handicapped in Ile-Ife, Nigeria: A Socio-Cultural Dimension

Ai, Odebiyi

doi:10.1177/146642408310300408

Journal of the Royal Society of Health

1983

DOI: 10.1177/146642408310300408

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Handicaps and the Handicapped in Ile-Ife, Nigeria: A Socio-Cultural Dimension

Odebiyi Ai

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“…The marriage process is terminated if findings are positive (Fadipe 1970). Many studies have further exposed this attitude of rejection and ill treatment of the handicapped among the Yoruba (Ojofeitimi & Oyefeso 1980, Odebiyi 1983, Ogedengbe 1982, Togonu-Bickersteth 1982. found out in their study that mothers of deaf children spanked them more frequently than the other normal children.…”

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Child‐rearing practices among nursing mothers in Ile‐Ife, Nigeria

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1985

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This study attempts to highlight the relationship between the educational status of mothers in Ile-Ife and their child-rearing practices. It was observed that the educated mothers in good jobs spent less time at home with the children than the illiterates who have their children with them at the farms and in the market places. Thus, a higher proportion of the educated mothers admitted to using more bottle feeding than breast feeding, and forced hand-feeding which was practised by all the illiterate women interviewed. Only one educated woman still practices female circumcision. Of interest in the study is the fact that the children of the different categories of women are exposed to different types of health hazards; while the children of the educated suffer neglect and are deprived of the advantages of breast feeding, the children of the illiterate suffer from undue exposure to unhygienic conditions in the farms and market places and from the implications of forced hand-feeding and female circumcision.

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1985

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Concepts and management of deafness in the Yoruba medical system: A case study of traditional healers in Ile-Ife, Nigeria

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1987

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Influence of Yoruba Beliefs About Abnormality on the Socialization of Deaf Children: A Research Note

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Odebiyi

1985

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The study examines patterns of communication modes of guidance and discipline and affectional bonds between 176 Yoruba hearing mothers and their deaf children. Results relating to communication support earlier findings about the frustrations inherent in such endeavour. Contrary to other published reports, the Yoruba mothers studied perceived expressive linguistic abilities of deaf children more negatively than receptive abilities. Communication difficulties affected mothers' guidance and discipline, particularly since the culturally preferred modes of discipline rely very heavily on children's age-related language competence. Mothers' verbal claims of affectional bonds were not supported by evidence from other sources close to and including the deaf children.

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Handicaps and the Handicapped in Ile-Ife, Nigeria: A Socio-Cultural Dimension

Cited by 4 publications

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Child‐rearing practices among nursing mothers in Ile‐Ife, Nigeria

Child‐rearing practices among nursing mothers in Ile‐Ife, Nigeria

Concepts and management of deafness in the Yoruba medical system: A case study of traditional healers in Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Influence of Yoruba Beliefs About Abnormality on the Socialization of Deaf Children: A Research Note

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