Sector Policy for Learners and Trainees with Disabilities 2018

Abstract

This policy has been developed with an overall goal of promoting the provision of education and training for learners and trainees with disabilities. The pursuit of this goal has necessitated several critical shifts from the 2009 Special Needs Education Policy. Inclusive education is now the overarching principle of the entire policy. This policy has also been developed jointly with its implementation guidelines. This reviewed policy concurs with the person first language principle in addressing persons with disabilities, which exemplifies that the ‘person’ is more important than his or her ‘disability’. Though the policy recognizes all disabilities and special needs, it now prioritizes the coverage of learners and trainees who have hearing impairments, visual impairments, deaf, blindness, physical impairments, intellectual disabilities, specific learning disabilities, cerebral palsy, speech and language difficulties, multiple disabilities, autism and albinism.