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    "id": 1560728,
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    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Makali Mulu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I appreciate the Senate for originating this Bill. If my memory serves me well, this Bill was in this House but lapsed because of the end of the term. A Senator picked it thereafter. I also thank the Departmental Committee on Education for agreeing to co-sponsor the Bill. This is how we should be doing things: whichever House originates a Bill, we can get an Hon. Member from that House to co-sponsor it, and then we get the laws in place. I want to share some practical experiences with these learners with disabilities. My constituency, Kitui Central, has three institutions serving learners with disabilities. I have institutions serving those who are mentally disabled, people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and the visually impaired. I have had a chance to interact with them. Everything relating to these children with disabilities is also special. It makes their education so expensive to everyone involved, including the parents. I appreciate this Bill because it proposes a legal and institutional framework. Therefore, we can provide the right learning environment to learners with disabilities. For example, the ones who are visually impaired use braille. I once brought a Petition to this House and the Departmental Committee on Education. There are about 24 teachers in this country who can assist in the development of the material they use. Hon. Temporary Speaker, for your information, those teachers are not employed by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). They live on handouts from the parents of the institutions. In the whole Republic of Kenya, 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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