Opeyemi Adelere
The Federal Capital Territory Directorate of National Orientation Agency has called on the Federal Government to make provision for children living with disabilities to partake in online classes.
Many students living with disabilities have been left out of the various programmes put in place by the government to ensure continuous learning for students, who have been forced to stay at home as a result of the outbreak of Corona virus in the country.
NOA-FCT in conjunction with Business and Professional Women (BPW) Nigeria, said that government had failed to take in cognizance of thousands of children living with disabilities in pushing for online classes, adding that children living with disabilities in Nigeria have special needs and require learning aids to help them join in the online classes most schools are running in this period.
Ms Oluchi Okpara, a visually impaired assistant chief education officer in the federal ministry of education, who spoke on the need to make provisions for this category of Nigerians, was quoted by NOA-FCT.
Her words: “Children living with disabilities have not been factored into plans by the Federal Government in plans to continue teaching children online during the lockdown.
“While parents can get lesson teachers for their children to teach them at home or even join in the online lessons that most schools are running now, for a child with a disability, he is completely out of the game. There is no provision for that child.
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“The government should try as much as possible to involve children living with disabilities in online learning by providing assistive technology that will help them to also learn alongside other children.”
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