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The Minister of State for Education, Mr Peter Lokeris, has said hostile school environment is largely contributing to the high dropout rate of pupils with disabilities.
"The sector is registering a high rate of dropout which is due to various challenges including hostile school environment, lack of instructional materials and capacity of the existing teachers to address individual learning needs of these children in the classroom," he said.
Lokeris was handing over an assortment of instructional materials, sanitary materials for girls and equipment to the Uganda School for the Deaf in Ntinda on Monday.
He said although the number of children with physical handicap, visual and hearing impairment, and mental retardation enrolled in schools had increased from 20,000 in 1992 to 218,380 in 2004, the number had continued to fluctuate.
He, however, said the government was doing its best to address the plight of children and students with disabilities.
Lokeris said the government had contracted Kyambogo University to brail books for P5-P7 and also constructed a boarding secondary school in Wakiso for children with disabilities.
He said the ministry was planning to construct another secondary school in Mbale.
The Minister of State for Education, Mr Peter Lokeris, has said hostile school environment is largely contributing to the high dropout rate of pupils with disabilities.
"The sector is registering a high rate of dropout which is due to various challenges including hostile school environment, lack of instructional materials and capacity of the existing teachers to address individual learning needs of these children in the classroom," he said.
Lokeris was handing over an assortment of instructional materials, sanitary materials for girls and equipment to the Uganda School for the Deaf in Ntinda on Monday.
He said although the number of children with physical handicap, visual and hearing impairment, and mental retardation enrolled in schools had increased from 20,000 in 1992 to 218,380 in 2004, the number had continued to fluctuate.
He, however, said the government was doing its best to address the plight of children and students with disabilities.
Lokeris said the government had contracted Kyambogo University to brail books for P5-P7 and also constructed a boarding secondary school in Wakiso for children with disabilities.
He said the ministry was planning to construct another secondary school in Mbale.