Special needs centres grossly under-resourced

Lack of experts in the area of special needs has led to prolonged assessments of learners, as well as backlogs dating back three years ago at the country’s premier special needs diagnosis centre in Tlokweng, officials have said.

The Botswana Society for Human Development (BSHD) had convened a speech and communication disorder forum convened by at the University of Botswana over the weekend. Authorities at the Community Resource Centre say this has escalated costs of special education as well as accentuated complexities in dealing with conditions that could have been easily managed had diagnosis and intervention been availed earlier.

Worst still, Duduetsang Moroka, an official from the centre was worried that as the curricula gets complicated, late interventions for special needs learners further compound their comprehension, and consequently disabling them to complete their studies compared to their counterparts in mainstream education.

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