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World Education Blog - Christophe: A COVID-19 learning hero for blind learners in Burkina FasoThis blog was originally posted on World Education Blog Posted on 12 March 2021 by GEM Report Christophe Oulé became blind when he was 43. “It did not happen immediately,” he said. “It took six months. At first, I felt useless. When I first knew, I…
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Sign language in education is oft forgottenThis blog was originally posted on World Education Blog Posted on 11 March 2021 by GEM Report About 34 million children worldwide have disabling hearing loss. Nearly 95% of deaf children are born to hearing parents, for whom sign language knowledge…
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Transforming Education in Sierra Leone Continues with Geospatial DataThis blog was originally posted on GPE Education for All on March 04, 2021 by David Moinina Sengeh, Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Sierra Leone, and Alina Game. A teacher computes students' grades for their report card. Kailahun,…
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Voices from Sierra Leone: The real experiences of girls with disabilities at schoolRead the blog posted on Sightsavers on December 2020
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Shifting mindsets to support disability-inclusive educationThis blog was written by Hanna Alaasutari, and Quentin Wodon. It was originally posted on Education for Global Development on December 3, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to rethink how to promote learning and resilience in education systems,…
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Overloaded: Families With Children Who Have Special Needs Are Bearing an Especially Heavy Weight, And Support Is NeededThis blog was written by the Center for Translational Neuroscience at the University of Oregon | Transformative Neuroscience for Social Change. It was originally posted on Medium. Due to the pandemic, families with children who have special needs are…
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Making Learning Accessible to All in NepalBirendra Giri, a visually impaired student from Nepal, took his 12th-grade exam this month. The exams had been postponed for seven months due to COVID-19, and Birendra is worried he was not well-prepared. “I did not have any Braille books at home," he…
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Examining Disability Inclusion in India’s New National Education PolicyThis blog was written by Tanushree Sarkar, a disabled woman and doctoral student in the Community Research and Action program at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. She has a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Psychology from the London School of…
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Empowering girls with disabilities through radical inclusion during and beyond COVID-19: Marie’s storyPhoto: Marie types braille notes while listening to the national education programme on radio. (Photo Credit: Idrissa Kanjay, Sightsavers) This blog was written by Eric Musa, Inclusive Education Project Officer, Sightsavers Sierra Leone, in…
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Every Learner Matters: Unpacking the learning crisis for children with disabilitiesAcross the world, the number of children with disabilities is growing. Increased awareness regarding learning, as well as invisible disabilities such as learning disabilities, are changing the composition of our classrooms. Better screening and…
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