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    "id": 1251954,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1251954/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "with special needs that need to be enrolled in schools and that are already in schools. For purposes of planning, it will be easier to know what facilities need to be made available to these children. Clause 23 is on the establishment of the Special Needs Education Advisory Board. I call upon the promoters of this Bill to consider maybe refining that Clause and properly defining the qualifications of the people to sit in this Board. Clause 23(2) tries to define those qualifications but in very general terms. It will be important to define the proper qualifications of the people that should sit on this advisory Board. This is because it is these people that will cause policy shifts and serious government decisions on the education of children with special needs. I would request that maybe in Third Reading the sponsors of the Bill may consider refining the qualifications for the person that should sit on the advisory Board. In conclusion, there is a problem with the training of teachers for special education needs children. That training is accessible to a very small and insignificant percentage of teachers in this country. Then the teachers that have had the privilege of going through the Kenya Institute of Special Education are so few that they cannot be effective. I suggest that the promoters of this Bill also consider a Clause that makes it mandatory to integrate special needs education into the curriculum for the training of teachers in teachers’ training institutions. We shall then we begin the process of making every public school an integrated unit for special needs children. This Bill, in a nutshell, seeks to remove the barriers and substitutes them with enablers for greater access to education for our children with special needs and for that reason. I fully support it. I thank you."
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