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    "content": "Another area that we need to address as a country is the assistive devices. If this learner is given a kind of assistive device according to the type of disability, then that would be a boost for that learner to be in class. The third area that we need to address is that of aid; personal assistance to persons with disabilities. If you give out an assistive device to a learner who has no personal assistant to assist them, it may not be useful to them. I am speaking out of experience. You may be given a wheelchair, but have no one to push that wheelchair for you which is a manual chair. I remember one day when I was schooling in St. Mary’s Mumias Girls’ High School when I could not push myself on a wheelchair from the boarding section to class. I had to leave the wheelchair along the way and crawl because I could not get somebody to help me cross the barrier. I could not wheel myself to the classroom. Another issue is that of the behaviour of the personnel. I remember one teacher stepping out of a class when I was moving around to tell me that I was making noise for other learners because the wheelchair was making a lot of noise as I moved because they had poured gravel along the pavements. So, once a learner receives such an abusive interference, even if they go to class, their morale of being attentive in class go down. When you talk about the personnel, you should look at how teachers treat learners with disabilities. This is wanting and sends away learners. They take disability as a problem that cannot be handled. Elsewhere, most teachers who have gone for special education training lack motivation. Since they lack motivation, they go out of the country to look for greener pastures. When they go away, a gap is left. We want to use an example of the deaf and blind learners in an institution, who require one teacher to one learner. You will find a school where we have ten deaf or blind learners with only two or one teacher. That means that for one week the teacher will be handling one leaner. How many weeks or months will it take to teach each and every leaner? What duration of would these learners need to compete with other learners? When we talk about learners with severe disabilities we need to categories them as my fellow Senators have said. We need to categorise the severity and the type of school so that proper placement is done and each learner with a different type of disability is placed in a special school according to their type of disability."
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