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    "content": "THAT, AWARE that Article 43 (f) of the Constitution stipulates that every person has a right to education; FURTHER AWARE that Kenya is among the State Parties that ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in which the parties undertook to ensure that Persons with disabilities are not excluded from the general education system and that the education of persons, and in particular children, who are blind, deaf or deaf-blind, is delivered in the most appropriate languages and modes and means of communication for the individual, and in environments which maximize academic and social development; ACKNOWLEDGING that hearing impaired learners have linguistic challenges and perform dismally in academics, since all subjects other than Kiswahili and foreign languages are taught and examined in English; COGNIZANT that hearing impaired learners who are educable can master the essentials of English language as they are able to sign sing the National Anthem in Signing Exact English (SEE); NOW THEREFORE, the Senate calls upon the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to: - (1) Ensure that Signing Exact English (SEE) is used as a mode of instruction for persons with hearing impairment who are educable; (2) Develop SEE instructional materials for learners with hearing impairment; (3) Work with linguists and researchers to develop sign language resources; and, (4) Ensure that sign language linguistics is offered as a discipline in universities and teacher training colleges."
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