IT should be compulsory for all teachers to be trained on how to use sign languages in schools so that they can communicate well with students with disability, says a teacher. Ted Diro Primary School deputy head teacher Margaret Gerari told The National that they had 322 grade eight students sitting for the national examinations and two students with disability were sitting for the exams as well. She said an interpreter from the Cheshire Home would be with them during the four days of examinations. Gerari said Adam Dikana from Hanuabada and Daisy Kotena from Gulf did their grades 3 to 8 in Ted Diro Primary School and they were sitting for the national examinations with other students. The students have hearing and speech difficulties. She said there were courses for teachers, especially for sign language, and teachers needed to take up the course. Today many schools have started to take in students with disability and sign language is vital for teachers.
“They started their basic education with Cheshire Home services,” Gerari said. We took them in when they were in grade 3. “Teachers found it a bit hard because we don’t know sign language, but we tried our best to talk to them in which the peer group, the students themselves communicate well with them and they understood each other and sometimes they read our lips.” Gerari said more teachers would need to take up courses to teach using sign language and other means to communicate with students with disabilities as the numbers would increase as schools take in these students. Next : Grade 8 National Exams Begin Comments are closed.
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