Enhancing Support systems to Promote Mainstreaming Of the Deaf Child In Free Primary

The project aims to provide a conducive learning enviroment for deaf children both at school and in the home.

Recipient:: Kenya Association for Empowerment of Disabled People
Country:: Kenya
Project contact:: Eunice Kahoi (Kenya Association for Empowerment of Disabled People)
Start date:: 01 January 2009
End date:: 31 December 2010
Total budget:: 2,431,342.00 KES (�19,996.23)
Beneficiary type:: Parents, School aged children
Project type:: Deaf club / youth club, Advocacy, Vocational training

Summary:

The project aims to provide a conducive learning enviroment for deaf children both at school and in the home.

Aim:

To mainstream deaf children in the community and local primary schools by creating support systems where deaf children will interact effectively with their teachers, parents and fellow pupils.

Beneficiaries:

All beneficiaries come from the three divisions in Laikipia district, Kenya.
• 1,200 Deaf children (ages 5-16)
• 150 parents
• 60 hearing children
• 36 community leaders
• 72 deaf young people and adults (ages 17-70)
• 54 teachers
• 36 government officials

Activities:

School integration programme
• One school in each of the three divisions of Laikipia will be pilot schools to include deaf children in mainstream classes.
• Set up a support groups of teachers and hearing and deaf children
• Teach teachers and pupils basic sign language, rights, reproductive health and HIV and AIDS
• Invite role models to give presentations to the support group

Parents’ support groups
• Teaching parents sign language
• Income generation to increase household income for families so that parents/guardians are able to provide basic services for their deaf children.

Youth support groups
• Volleyball and games as a way of integrating deaf and hearing children/youths and teaching sign language to hearing youth teams

Deaf children’s support groups
• Support groups for deaf children where they will interact with deaf adults, community leaders, parents and young people.
• Raise awareness among deaf children on their rights, reproductive health and HIV and AIDS
• Income generating activities to enable the deaf children to buy books and personal effects.