Perception of Disability and its Related Issue among Students of KNUST

Perceptions towards disability differ greatly among students. Integrating disability issues into the law curicular in undergraduate education will promote knowledge for students to ensure that future generation of lawyers and judges routinely consider the impact of their work on disabled people. The study sought to ascertain the perception, the extent of inclusion of disability in curicula and methods to enhance the knowledge of law students in disability in KNUST. A quantitative approach with conviniece sampling was used to select 61 respondents from the final year class. Data was collected by administering questionaires and analzsed with SPSS which describes the responses with percentage and tabular representations. It was found that most respondents, (82%) were females and (18%) were females. Seventy two percents were within the age range of 19-22 years. The study showed that 60% of the students had positive perception towards disability, whiles 70% reacted negatively to the inclusion of disability in the law curicular and 65% agreed to the perceived measures to help increase the knowledge base of the students. The study recommends that disability studies should be included .