While parents complain that their wards are left out of e-learning for various reasons, the situation is worse for special children whose needs for specialist education are not being met because of poor facilities...
While parents complain that their wards are left out of e-learning for various reasons, the situation is worse for special children whose needs for specialist education are not being met because of poor facilities, untrained manpower and poverty reportsSince his birth 12 years ago, Abdulrahman Odaranile has been struggling with three life-despairing challenges – hearing and speech impairment, and an incomplete formation of his spinal cord.
Though caring for Abdulrahman, his two sisters, and working full-time has been daunting, Mrs. Odaranile is encouraged by his excellent school grades. She is proud of how he outperforms some peers who do not have multiple disabilities like him. “Now that the classes have been scheduled to start, it is only for primaries four and five which he obviously cannot benefit from. And if they eventually begin the class for his level, power here is never stable, so the burden solely rests on us during the lockdown,” she lamented.
Victor gets excited when he sees other children in school. He has been quite laid back since he is home, and sometimes he gets angry for no reason,” she said.Many children with learning disabilities are in Abdulrahman’s shoes in Lagos, Nigeria’s most-populated state and home to 20 million people. Cassandra Nwokoporo, a visually-impaired 18-year-old pupil of Queen’s College, Yaba is being left behind her peers in school.
But being home, I have not been able to do all of that. I only hope I do not have issues when I return to school,” she told this reporter in her Ijesha, Surulere, family home. Cassandra is preparing for the Basic Education Certificate Examination which has been postponed because of the pandemic. She believes she can prepare well with the right support.
Pre-COVID-19, Afolabi Fajemilo said the foundation which was established in 2006 and collaborates with the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital and the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital , Ile-Ife to render support services to special needs children, was planning training for non-special teachers in collaboration with the Lagos State Government.
“A lot of children learn by close tutoring; they are taught by professionals who understand their unique differences, information processing and learning style. Child Psychiatrist and Public Health Physician from the Child and Adolescent Health Service Centre of the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Lagos, Dr. Mashudat Bello-Mojeed said not addressing the needs of special needs children during the pandemic could have adverse effect when schools resume.
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