Children hospitalized with cancer can now continue their education in hospital.
The Ministry of Education, with support from the Periwinkle Club, provides two teachers who work with cancer patients in the Children Wards of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, Chief Education Officer (ag), Marcel Hutson said, according to a GINA press release.
The release stated that the intervention is among several that the Ministry is undertaking to ensure children with special needs are educated.
According to Hutson there is a Special Education Needs unit which provides testing for dyslexia and instructions on the needs of these students at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD), the release stated.
The release added that the Ministry has also been working with the Ministry of Health to screen students at an early age for hearing and seeing disabilities. Hutson said that the ministry has been supplying the spectacles and hearing aids to children who need these aids.
The ministry has also provided the David Rose School for the disabled with a bus to take the students to and from home to school.
