USAID, MoE, support visually impaired students with Braille learning materials

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education (MoE) has presented 1,400 Braille Teaching and Learning Materials to nine Special Education Schools that support visually impaired learners.

USAID Education Office Director, Rasheena Reid, joined the Deputy Minister of Education, Reverend John N. Fordjour last Wednesday at the Akropong School to handover the materials which were developed in collaboration with the Ministry of Education’s Special Education Division.

The “Partnership for Education: Learning” programme, partnered with the Ministry to create the materials to help improve the reading performance of visually impaired learners in the country.

“Education opens doors for professional, economic, and cultural opportunities. Visually impaired students deserve those same opportunities. 

“We congratulate the Ministry of Education and Ghana Education Service on their commitment to inclusive education, especially as the Government of Ghana supports the Global Disability Summit,” USAID’s Rasheena Reid said while Rev. Fordjour stressed the importance of inclusive education for all learners. 

The collaboration with the Ministry of Education focuses on promoting quality education for children. Sixty-five teachers from nine special education schools for the blind and selected District Special Education Coordinators would receive training on the use of the materials.

The schools include: Wa Methodist School For The Blind, Bechem School For The Deaf/Blind, Cape Coast School For The Deaf/Blind, Demonstration School For The Deaf/Blind, Volta School For The Deaf/Blind, Ashanti School For The Deaf/Blind, Three Kings Special School, Ghana National Basic Inclusive, Akropong School For The Blind.

The activity was part of the ‘Learning T2E Plus programme’, which supports the MoE and the GES to improve early grade reading of learners in Ghana.  The programme has trained over 20,000 teachers and reached over 750,000 pupils from over 5,000 schools across the country.

By Spectator Reporter