Children with Special Educational Needs (SEN)
All children are entitled to an education regardless of their race, religion, sex or disability. Children with SEN in Uganda face many difficulties in their everyday life due to the severity of their disability, society’s misunderstanding and a lack of funding for specialist equipment and schooling.
The Soft Power Special Educational Needs project aims to overcome these barriers to give children a fighting chance to live a life like their ‘normally functioning’ peers.
Our emphasis is very much on empowering the community and teachers in sustaining a high quality education for all their pupils. We join forces with Ugandans to empower and create an outstanding education for children with SEN.
Specifically, the project aims to enhance and train teachers, therapists and the community in Special Educational Needs to provide a safe and well resourced learning environment. With support from you we hope to provide an education for pupils whom at present are kept at home and uneducated because of their disability. The children will enter into an integrated education system with their peers and will be provided with specialist equipment to aid their education and welfare.
The project best hopes of success lie in the time of professionals; Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists and trained teachers in the area of SEN and those currently in training, to come out and volunteer in the field. Incorporated within the programme will be vocational training so the children can leave school with a purposeful skill to support themselves and their families. It's about empowering the individual and giving them the same access to education as other children.
The SEN project also aims to support teachers through inset training and developing a new diploma course at the University in SEN. It's important to us to equip the teachers and trainee teachers with the skills, knowledge and resources to sustain and continue delivering a quality education to all children with SEN.
We are looking for enterprising and enthusiastic Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapists and Speech and Language Therapists to volunteer their services within the schools and community to develop programmes, assessment and training for teachers and parents. This would be a valuable element to your personal and academic qualifications and we would value your support.
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If you are interested in volunteering on this project, please email volunteering@softpowereducation.com