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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Were",
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        "legal_name": "Petronila Were Lokorio",
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    "content": "Education Act, 2013, and thank her for bringing the Motion to this House. I also thank her for her dedication to the needs of Persons with Disability. She is living up the role that she represents in this House; the needs of persons with disability. For a long time, we have had issues with children with disability, where parents do not know what to do with those children. Some of them are not aware that it is a condition within, which the children can lead a normal life without any hindrances. For a long time, these children have been hidden in houses and rooms, so that the public never get to know where they are. Madam Deputy Speaker, we set up devolution to bring services closer to the people. Early Childhood Education is a function that is fully devolved and counties are in charge of this function. This Motion that is meant to ensure that we have set up education and assessment research centers in counties, is something that counties should be doing already. The information that the centers are dilapidated and neglected should be taken seriously. Governors should be called to explain why the centres have not been set up with infrastructure and made fully operational for these services. These education and assessment research centers, other than helping to identify these children to get them out of the house and support them in terms of education so that they can lead a normal life as other children, is something that is basic. As Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve said, this is something that is required in the United Nations Convention on the rights of children with disability. These centers will also provide psychosocial support, not just for the parents and guardians of those children, but also to the teachers who offer this service to the children. Madam Deputy Speaker, in my county of birth, that is, Busia County, we have a national school for persons with disability called St. Catherine‘s. For a long time, this has been the point of reference for schools around the region, if not national. We have children from across the country going there. The St. Catherine‘s School for Special Children also acts as the resource center on issues of special needs. I urge counties to take this issue seriously and take the burden away from schools that deal with persons with disability or children with special needs. Thank you."
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