The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has reaffirmed his resolve to prioritise the needs of special education to ease the burden of parents and guardians, and improve access to education.
In that regard, he said, he would champion the recruitment and training of at least, 1,000 more special education teachers to be trained in language, speech therapy, occupational and behavioural therapy.
He mentioned the commitment when he made donations to some schools for special education at a ceremony in Akropong in the Eastern Region last Friday. The Vice-President donated laptops to visually impaired teachers at the Ghana Education Service (GES) and handed over Information and Communications Technology (ICT) laboratories to the Akropong School for the Blind and the Wa Methodist School for the Blind.
Dr Bawumia said the initiative was part of a broader strategy to integrate ICT into the education system of the country to make learning more interactive, engaging and accessible for all students.
He expressed the hope that the students would make the most of the opportunity, and said the skills they would acquire would not only enhance their academic performance but also open doors to various career paths, tertiary education, as well as their personal growth.
He said the model would be replicated in other special schools across the country to ensure that no child was left behind in the pursuit of educational excellence.
In May, 2022, the GES launched a manual on inclusive education titled “Changing perspectives: Inclusive schools in inclusive communities”, intended to serve as a comprehensive guide for the training of teachers and the teaching of special children.
Funded by the World Bank and developed by Ghanaian experts, the manual chronicled modern ways of tutoring and attending to the needs of special children.
