Educationist Offers Centre For Dyslexics
Monday, April 29, 2019
Bonolo Boitshwarelo-Gaba PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Bonolo Gaba, who is the founder of Lowapi Study Centre also known as Differently Able, revealed that she developed the love for working with learners who have a learning disability when she majored in learning difficulties and disabilities.
Narrating her journey, Gaba explained that when she first opened her tuition centre in 2011; it was a general centre accommodating every learner and later transformed it into a learning centre that mainly focuses on students with learning disabilities.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...