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    "speaker_name": "Kitui West, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Edith Nyenze",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I note that disability is the umbrella term for all impairments of the body structure or functions. It is limitation in activities and tasks that a person does, or a restriction in participation. That defines what disability is. This is a very good Bill because it will enable people with disability to be recognised and registered. This Bill will also try to bring together all the segmented parts of Bills on disability under one umbrella. This will enable different types of disabilities to be identified. There are various types of disabilities, some of which have not been recognised. I remember a few days ago, last month, I met a stammerer who had difficulties. You know most of them have difficulties in expressing themselves or talking. This has not been recognised as a disability. There are so many other disabilities which have not been recognised as such. Therefore, this is a very good Bill which will enable disabilities which have not been recognised to be recognised and registered. In doing so, they will also be assisted in their various disabilities. The other time I talked about disability, especially the one of children who have severe disabilities. I brought it up in the Children Act. We have children with severe disability. These ones are still put in the brackets of disability. Some of them are so severe that they do not even go to school, they cannot talk, and they cannot move. Such disabilities have not been fully identified and assisted because, according to me, such disabilities require a centre where these children can be assisted medically. This will also free their parents, especially their mothers and grandmothers, to have time to attend to other businesses. Such children grow to be big people who cannot even move or assist themselves. Their mothers are always around them. They do not do any meaningful activities or businesses to help the other children. Such mothers are even discriminated against by their friends because they feel they will not be as active as them. This Bill should recognise such special disabilities and come up with ways of assisting people with such disabilities. Our education system should also incorporate some of these in the curriculum. It has done it, but not for some. The other time I took a child who has disability to a college. They are deaf The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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