{"id":826090,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/826090/?format=json","text_counter":267,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. (Dr.) Langat","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13189,"legal_name":"Christopher Andrew Langat","slug":"christopher-andrew-langat"},"content":"A scientific manual has been developed already. A group of professors in language communication met in 1971 and developed a system and a manual that can be used. This was a great pointer towards the scientific discovery that English language in form of its systems and signs can be used as a means of instruction for people with hearing impairment. Another scientific support on this was also reached through the research by another professor of sign language by the name Mcdonald or something like that and the greatest support in our country was reached when its full system was developed in the university by Prof. Okoth Okombo, who was my teacher of sign language at the University of Nairobi. Most of his thesis are already a foundation to develop this particular Signing Exact English (SEE) or what is sometimes called Signed Exact English. It has been proven scientifically that it is viable so anybody misleading these people and bringing them around the gate to disregard or to think that Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve is going against their rights is misleading them and taking advantage of them. It is viable and it can be used. Madam Temporary Speaker, Language is a means of instruction of teaching most of the subjects in Kenya apart from Kiswahili and foreign languages. English is a medium of instruction for teaching mathematics, sciences, history, geography and other art subjects. Denying people with hearing impairment to use SEE as a means of instruction is limiting them in understanding mathematics, history and other subjects, hence discriminating them. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."}