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    "id": 1192059,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Joe Nyutu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute to the Statement by Sen. Crystal Asige. I thank her for making this important Statement. As the Chair of the Committee on Education, I need to make a few comments. The issue of children with special needs is a very serious matter. In most traditions and cultures of our people, parents are forced to hide these children at home. It is important that when we come to institutions of learning, we should make enough provisions for these learners. I thank the Government because through the Kenya Institute of Special Education (KISE), teachers at the primary school level have been undertaking further training in special needs education. Most primary schools have centres for learners with special needs. Sometimes a learner or the parent will not fully accept that their children have special needs. It would be important for teachers to be trained in special education in the teacher training colleges, so that they are empowered to handle kids with special needs. Some of these children will be hidden at home and come to school as normal kids, yet"
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