Authorities of the Gbeogo School for the deaf is appealing to government, civil society organizations and individual stakeholders to as a matter of urgency come to the aid of the school to support the school put up a hearing assessment center.
According to the Headmaster of the school, Felix Neetege, who made the call, the center will help the school detect early hearing impairment in children to help authorities determine an appropriate placement during admissions.
He was speaking at a fund raising ceremony organized by Gbeogo School for the Deaf in collaboration with other stakeholders at Gboego in the Talensi district.
The headmaster said school authorities have observed that most of the children are not properly assessed and therefore most of them wrongly find themselves in the school. Aside this, he added, an accurate hearing could determine whether a child can benefit from a hearing aid and still be admitted in the regular school without having to be withdrawn to a special need school.
Mr. Neetege revealed that the school is also set to put up a sick bay to monitor and control suspected skin or communicable diseases in the children to prevent the spread of diseases to others. He added that the sick bay will also enable authorities give proper administration of medication to sick children and also manage other diseases like epilepsy which most of the children contract when they come to the school.
He said it is against this back drop and other related cases that authorities of the school are calling for a proactive measure to support the school establish a hearing assessment centre and the sick bay to cater for the needs of the children.
Mr. Neetege used the occasion to commend all those who have supported the school in diverse ways and said the school is however challenged in many ways such as inadequate means of transport as its major problem.
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