The education of more than 50 students at the Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation Centre in Mombasa has been hampered by lack of speech therapists and other specialists.
The centre has on several occasions been forced to turn away parents of special needs children since last year because they lack funds for expansion and adequate special needs teachers.
The centre has only two speech therapists against a ballooning number of children with dire need of psychological and nutritional services.
School principal Shamsa Abdulrahman, however, cited lack of funding as one of major challenges facing the centre, saying majority of parents with such children cannot cater for their special education which is normally expensive.
“The main problem facing them is to get the specialists to train the children and lack of psychologists to make the parents understand what their children are going through,” said Shamsa.
Yesterday, the centre received a donation of therapy equipments worth Sh1.3 million from Kenya Maritime Authority (KMA) while the Shariff Nassir Foundation donated Sh270,000.
KMA acting director general Cosmas Cherop urged Kenyans to support such centres so as to give such disabled children an opportunity to get specialised training so that they can become independent citizens.
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