Disabled persons call for new national curriculum

Dec 03, 2008

THE Government has been asked to adjust the current education curriculum to catered for the disabled. The National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda project assistant, Rehema Namarone, said: “There are no special exams for persons with disabilities. How do you expect a blind person to read?”

By Jeff Lule

THE Government has been asked to adjust the current education curriculum to catered for the disabled. The National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda project assistant, Rehema Namarone, said: “There are no special exams for persons with disabilities. How do you expect a blind person to read?”

She said children with disabilities were also entitled to quality education. Namarone was addressing journalists at their offices in Bukoto last week.

“The teacher recruitment exercise also needs to be considered. “Teachers who specialise in teaching children with special needs are never recruited. This affects our children in the main stream schools,” Namarone said.

She said resources for disabled persons were needed to uplift their standards of living. Namarone also said HIV/AIDS campaigns had not catered for persons with disabilities.

“Many of our people are being infected through rape and most of them do not know where to go. Those who know are not assisted by the concerned authorities,” she said.

“Disability is not inability. Many disabled people have been successful,” Namarone added.

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