{"id":282950,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/282950/?format=json","text_counter":29,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mrs. Shebesh","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":377,"legal_name":"Rachel Wambui Shebesh","slug":"rachel-shebesh"},"content":"asked the Minister for Medical Services:- (a) If he is aware that there is no trained speech therapist in Kenya, yet speech therapy is an integral need for most children with special needs; (b) if he is also aware that there are only 5 non-Kenyan speech therapists serving more than 400,000 children in Nairobi alone, hence making their service unaffordable for a majority of parents; and (c) what plans the Government has to ensure that institutions of higher learning are supported to develop curricula for training professional speech therapists."}