FOROYAA Newspaper (Serrekunda)
Publisher
6 November 2009
The director of Gambia association for the deaf and hard of hearing (GADHOH) female skills centre and nursery school Mrs. Isatou Sanyang has urged parents to take the children with hearing impairment to school.
She explained that having found themselves in a rather disadvantaged position so early in life, the only way out for such people is education and skills they acquire.
She warned parents against keeping their deaf children away from school saying doing so could lead to some severe problems when the child eventually turns to be an adult.
She further lamented that even though many parents registered their deaf children with her nursery school, but so far some of the parents are not bringing their children to school.
Isatou Sanyang also explained that GADHOH female wing skills centre would like to spread its tentacles all over the country, but that lack of funds serve as an obstacle to that expansion. She indicated that her skill centre which trains girls with hearing impairments faces a host of constraints of which she said finance is the major one.
Despite what appears to be mounting constraints, Sanyang said they are on the brink to establish a new skill centre nursery school at Brikama which he said consists of three classrooms and some other facilities.
She indicated that this project was made possible with support from philanthropists. Sanyang further said that although her association has some schools across the country, but what most of them offer is learning of sign language. According to her, those schools should offer more than sign language, but lack of finance serves as the stumbling block to introducing skills training.
Commenting on the activities of his nursery school and skills centre, Isatou Sanyang said apart from classroom learning, children and girls also embark on extra curricular activities such as basketball, volleyball and football. She noted that it has been a policy of his centre to encourage physical education whose importance cannot be under estimated.
She also said sports are for all people and that people with hearing impairment should not be excluded.
On what she hopes the future holds for people with hearing impairment, Sanyang stated that she hopes one day deaf and hard of hearing will be able to acquire higher education in this country.
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