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    "id": 1267649,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1267649/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "are taught Sign Language while in primary school from Class one, two, three, all our children in this country will sign. This is very important for integration purposes. It is very important so that when we say we want to integrate the children, then anybody can sign. I will come back to the story of the trainer. Sign language for every child is a very important and progressive step as far as our education is concerned. It is going to be very progressive because now that we are going to a Competency Based Curriculum (CBC), we want many things to be practical. We need to make sure that everybody can sign. When we had public participation on the Sign Language Bill (Senate Bills No.9 of 2023), I was amazed by a mother who after discovering that her child was deaf, decided that the whole house was going to be trained on signage. She came to us during public participation and said, ‘Please, teach the parents how to sign.’ This is because, a child goes to school, learns sign language, comes home and there is a creation of another language in the house because the mothers do not know how to communicate. They have been communicating with their children the way they wish. That parent said that there is a lot of confusion if parents do not know signage. She said that the child was trying to train them on how to sign and they were at a loss because they did not know what he was telling them. That parent changed the sign from the rudimentary way of communicating with the parents to what the teacher said. Go home and sign for your parents so that they learn."
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