Disability is not Inability

:: EDUCATION PROGRAMME:

Education we believe is our biggest barrier to all other issues of life. The role of education as a source of productivity, particiaption and healthy living is insurmountable.

We believe that its only through education that partcipation intensity will rasie to levels that make productive and equitable access to opportunties.

Persons with disabilities are by condition (cultural and systamic) strategically disadvantaged to effectively participate in socio-economic and political activities.

The Programme has one goal that drives the education activities: ACCESS. Based on the principle of integration of Persons with disabilities into society it is our belief that

Education for ALL principle means we must find ways of making Education accessible within the inclusion structires that are existing and towards a productive citizen with disabilities.

To achieve this the role of Information Communication Technology is quite critical especially in building access both through adaptation of existing intructional materials and methods. ICT also build capacity to deliver materials in accessible afordable manner.

This therefore defines the ACCESS objectives of the Education Programme in two ways:

a) To adopt materials to forms accessible to persons and children with various disabilities. This includes sign language, voice, video, braille etc.

b) To deliver the same instructional and suplementary online reading materials to the learners with special needs in a convinient manner.

c) To increase access to computer hardware. The expansion of access to ICT in general and computer facilities in particular is of great importance to the programme. We therefore do alot of advocacy in this area to ensure ALL ICT programmes are disability friendly.

a) To adopt materials to forms accessible

The programme adapts existing materials to be disability-friendly and therefore productively useable by persons with various especially communication disabilities.

The focus on Deaf education is only due to the lack of instructional materials in Kenya sign language a fact that has disenfranchised many deaf people from productive citizenship.

b) Convinient delivery of materials.

Using the potentials brought by ICT, the programme builds and publishes various materials for FREE delivery directly to either service providers or users. A internet- based delivery mechanism is most prefered due to wide access and low distribution of computer facilities.


c) Adopt a PWD school/institution:

The programme also works with various agencies and departments of government to build ACCESS to ICT hardware to enable more persosn with disabilities to get an education.

d) Education Policy Advocacy:

The programme also does alot of advocacy jointly with other stakeholders in an effort to improve accessible education services to ALL persosn with special needs. The adjustments are usually either misunderstood or require resources for their successful implementation.

Ability International

Category: Education assistive devices

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