KUCHING: Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah has given the thumbs up to the special school proposed by the Chief Minister.
Fatimah said the special school was a good thing as children with disabilities could finally obtain the right education.
“Children with disabilities need to attend special therapies and interventions that needed to be done, and the best rehabilitation should be done at pre-school before they enter primary school.
“The earlier the children go through these rehabilitations, the result will be better. This is the intervention service that we want to give as a corporate social responsibility with Petronas,” she said.
Fatimah added that when children with disabilities enter primary school, the teachers must be well trained in order to give attention to these children.
“Therefore the rehabilitations start from pre-school until they enter primary school, and when they turn six years old and still could not complete their intervention, we will continue the rehabilitation from Primary One until Primary Six.
“It will be a long process and hopefully our state will be the first state to have this special school for children with disabilities,” she said.
“As of today, the government is looking into pre-school models from international countries to see what the process that they are doing for the children are, and apply it into our school.”
The minister added that they were putting into proposal what facilities should be included, proper trainings for the teachers and the therapies that the children needed, especially the speech therapies, as it was hard for them to communicate, “therefore with speech therapies, they will not face any difficulties to communicate.”
