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    "id": 1029183,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13188,
        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "grounds are not levelled properly to ensure that children with disabilities do not encounter problems. I urge teachers make sure these children are comfort in their schools. Madam Deputy Speaker, parents who have children with disabilities go through painful moments because no one seems to understand them. I have a friend who has an autistic child. She did not know about it and I explained to her that when assessed him. We need to be champions on these issues and encourage parents who have children with disabilities. Madam Deputy Speaker, EARCs play a big role in ensuring that they encouraging such parents, so that they can take care of their children and understand their children because they do not understand them. Madam Deputy Speaker, when a child is autistic, down syndrome, hearing disability or blind, a parent may not know how to treat and support the child from the word go. EARCs are supposed to help such parents in developing assessment tools and individualised educational plans for the children so that they walk together as they accept that their children have disabilities. Such parents are supposed to be a source of comfort to other parents who have children with disabilities. Counselling of both child and parent is done in EARCs. This is done to ensure that there is full support for children with disabilities. The national Government has a responsibility of ensuring that we have permanent teachers stationed in EARCs to support parents and children with disabilities. The assessment needs to be done in the EARCs. When assessment is done, there are children who improve with time. Some children are placed in special needs education centres when they are not supposed to be there because assessment was not done well, for example, the deaf who needs hearing aids so that he/she goes to the normal school. There is an advantage of going to a normal school because they mingle with the rest of the learners and learn languages. Language acquisition is very important. Without language acquisition, your world is blocked. I remember a reporter who had a hearing problem, Mr. Louis Otieno. When he realized he could not hear properly, he though his world had ended. He woke up one morning deaf and he was depressed. EARCs are supposed to help in rehabilitating such people so that they accept their situation and raising awareness on disability issues. EARCs come in handy in raising issues to the county governments and in barazas so that people with disabilities are accepted from an early age. When they are not accepted at the early age, they have nowhere to exit in the world of work because they have nowhere to exit. That is why we find many people with disabilities, it is so painful, who go for secretarial studies, but they end up being house girls or polishing shoes because the world has not understood them. It is my desire and plea that Senators will rally behind me and see how we can develop policies that can work so that EARCs have permanent teachers, fully equipped and have doctors and nurses. Teachers in EARCs wonderful work and they should not be taken for granted. Madam Deputy Speaker, children with mild disabilities can be placed in regular schools. Teachers who interact with children with mild disabilities in regular schools"
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