Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1811 to 1820 of 1925.

• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: (ix) developed and adopted curriculum at all levels for learners with special needs. view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am sure the hon. Member appreciates that the category of students he is mentioning has a specific disorder. They have a very short attention span. It is not just a Fe bruary 17, 2009 PARLIAMENTAR Y DEBATES view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mr. Nyambati should be aware that there are already 11,500 such centres dotted throughout the Republic of Kenya. Secondly, indeed, the Ministry is abreast with of the special needs assessment for these children, because they do not belong to the normal category of children, yet we want to integrate them in the normal learning situations. Therefore, they need extra attention in order to take care of their special conditions. view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: To this end, my Ministry has, indeed, done a needs assessment for that category of children. There is a national survey which is currently ongoing and, by August, we should be able to assess the extent to which we can assist these children. We have provided additional capitation over and above the normal capitation that we give to a normal intelligent child. These are children with an Intelligence Quotient (IQ) of below 70 per cent. I have already given you what I think is a global survey of 10 per cent of the population of students who are going to ... view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Currently, we are able to reach only 45,000, but we intend to capture the additional 40,000. I suspect there could be more there. Once we have a very acute way of detecting them, we should be able to net them into educational programme. view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, sometimes, I do not want to be over simplistic in assigning this issue to, simply, children who are clever, who may require education alone. It is important that we view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: 4992 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES February 17, 2009 view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: work in contact with the Medical Department to be able to delineate. There are those who have violence tendencies. There are those who are reckless. There are those who smack and smack. There are also those who, in fact, cause a lot of harm. Some of these conditions exhibit what you call "violence hyperactive state." When they have that hyperactive state, that is a treatable condition. view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: From my professional point of view, 70 per cent are treatable conditions. These are the particular cases we need to identify and be able to diagnose their conditions. If we can assign a cost-effect relationship, these are cases in which we can tone down the treatment to a manageable level. Therefore, they can go under normal studies, instead of exhibiting this hypertonic situations. These are manageable situations. I promise the hon. Member that, once the results of the survey are out, we shall be able to share them with this House. It is in our interest. Come 2015, we want ... view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. view