The state minister for education has called for an extensive training of teachers for children with disabilities and special needs.
Minister Rosemary Seninde was addressing the press after a consensus building meeting on inclusive education with different key stake holders in education this morning at Metropole hotel in Kampala.
Seninde said if the country is to achieve the middle income status by 2020 as envisioned by the President, no Ugandan should be left behind, not even children with disabilities and special needs.
“We need to ensure that children with disabilities, children with special needs are really catered for. But the only way we can cater for them is to ensure that we train more teachers because there is no way we can simply let it be as it probably was” Seninde told the press.
On the low budget allocation for the minister and managing the training of such teachers, the minister observed; “We are still being faced with a challenge of the budget. Resources are not enough but however little resources may be, what any Ugandan would want to see is accountability to that little resource available.”
She added; “What we need to do, is much as it is less than 1%, what have we done with that 1%? If it means training a few teachers per financial period, I think that will also give Ugandans hope, and that is what we are looking for.”
