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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I started moving this Motion yesterday. Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) are disadvantaged from an early age. When parents have children with disabilities, they do not take them to school immediately. In fact, they get so frustrated with their children because they do not know what is going on in their lives. That is why they take too long to enroll them in schools. They do not start schooling at the same age with their peers. When other children begin schooling at five years, them they begin at the age of 10 or 15 years. Madam Temporary Speaker, the issue of them being assessed in order for them to begin school takes a long time. When they are under their parents care, most parents prefer educating their other siblings. They are discriminated against and their parents do not see education children with disabilities as a priority. They are disadvantaged from a young age. Even when they go to school, they are disadvantaged in terms of the curriculum. Sometimes even their curriculum takes time to be fine-tuned. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to give an example of what happens in early childhood. In most schools, you find that children as young as four years are prepared to get on with the school curriculum. You will even find them speaking English or Kiswahili very fluently and they amaze their parents. However, for children with disabilities, there is nothing to amaze their parents because they do not go back with anything to show that they are getting anywhere. Therefore, when it even comes to the preparation for national exams, you will find that these children have not been prepared adequately to do form four examinations. Madam Temporary Speaker, even when they go to colleges and universities, they are disadvantaged. When they graduate, most of the time their certificates will not help them compete at the work place because of low grades. However with time, some of these children, out of their own accord, realise that they can struggle and get along. Using their own initiative, some of them even surpass what they learned in school because they had been disadvantaged. By the time they mature at the age of 20 or 25, they enroll to colleges to pursue diploma courses."
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