This boy had a rough time with the police and members of the public on suspicion of intent to commit a felony. What aggravated the suspicion was the fact that he couldn’t express himself in any way. He has no functional speech and therefore could not explain who he was and where he came from. …

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Mark N. Watuku. Mr. Mark Watuku has been known to me since he was a child having been placed at my school of the Mentally Handicapped in Nakuru, Kenya. This placement followed an erroneous Educational assessment diagnosis. whereas Mental Handicap(intellectual Disability) refers to significant sub average general intellectual functioning that exists concurrently with deficits in …

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SOME HIGHLIGHTS ON THE AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION SENSITIZATION SEMINARS HELD IN MARCH 2022. Participants: 40 teachers drawn from 10 Special schools across Kenya. 2 Officers of the National Council of Persons with Dsabilities 6 AAC experts attached to the SAAC-Kenya as facilitators 2 Representatives of the Seniors without Boarders of Denmark. The Kenya Institute …

SOME HIGHLIGHTS ON THE AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION SENSITIZATION SEMINARS HELD IN MARCH 2022. Read More »