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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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    "content": "impeach them. The county governments, under the governors, must rise to the occasion and also play a part in ensuring that our special learners are accommodated in Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE) like other children. Part III of the Bill is on registration and management of special needs educational institutions. These are the special schools we have today. We are trying to make it legal, so that we make provision and framework for our special schools to be properly registered, run and administered by people who are qualified to do these particular works. From there, we have Part Four, which is dealing with identification and assessment of children with disabilities. This is because we may not actually know this. Some of the elements of disabilities may not be known to us, and it is only experts who can do so. But it grieves us a lot by the fact that some of the children with disabilities are not let out in the open. I say this is a primitive African cultural practice, where we hide them in cow sheds, in our own dark rooms, or in our own pens which we set aside for them in a manner that is derogatory. It is now mandatory that when you have a child with a disability, the County Education Board has to do the assessment and eventually enrol that child into a facility suitable for the child to acquire some education. Part six is on development of those facilities. I have just made a reference to the fact that these schools are not particularly well-equipped or well-developed. We shall now have a legal framework requiring the Cabinet Secretary to ensure that these schools are on an equal footing with the other ordinary schools. Once we do this, we will ensure that our children who are differently abled acquire the best of the education, just like any other children. Pointedly, we have seen people who live with disabilities and who get a quality education working very well for this country. This is very important. Those are the people we should be emulating when the time comes for us to deal with the education of this group of persons. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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