An Action Plan geared at addressing the needs of children with disabilities is well on its way to becoming a reality.Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, assured the gathering at a recent Inclusive Education Expo,Chris Chelios Jersey, held at the Ministry’s Carifesta Avenue Sports Complex on Thursday, that she is hopeful that it will be a reality by year end.Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand“I can promise you that before my term is up we are going to have an Action Plan in place with a view to making sure that the needs of our disabled children are met.”This development, she said, will see the Ministry seeking to look at how it can improve its process of teaching as well as to better train teachers and facilitate better remuneration in order to ensure that teachers are encouraged to venture into the area of special needs education.“We want teachers to come into this field but we also know that it is harder than being a regular teacher,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic,” the Minister noted, as she highlighted features the Action Plan is expected to address.These features include issues such as the accessing of several geographical locations for some disabled children and the importance of ensuring that parents do not only understand the importance of sending their children to school but also ascertaining whether they can afford to send them. “It is a holistic approach in attempting to meet the needs of our disabled children. I can tell you even before we begin that it is an uphill task simply because of the very attitudes that exist,” the Minister said.She noted that there is a need to ensure that the disabled are offered all services available. She added too that “without that inclusion we cannot develop as rapidly as we deserve…”The Minister said that she is not satisfied with the attention being directed to disabled children, a state of affairs which prompted the recent exposition.“The fact that our Expo this year addresses the needs of disabled children tells you clearly that I am not happy with where we have been going so far.? We have hundreds of children who are disabled who are not exposed to our special needs education because we have not yet included them in our programme.”However, this situation is poised to be remedied since,Wholesale Authentic NHL Jerseys, according to the Minister, her Ministry is presently consulting with stakeholders including the various disability groups. This move, she said,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, is aimed at determining what will be the Ministry’s plan for the next five years.? “There are very many things we can do, even small things,NFL Jerseys Outlet, sometimes not expensive things, but we just didn’t know about them before and we will adjust our minds to it,Cheap China Jerseys,” the Minister asserted.She noted, however, that while the Ministry is prepared to employ a number of measures, efforts will require much more than that of the Ministry but rather other Government agencies, stakeholders, community members, religious bodies and people across the country will have to be involved.She said that an appeal has been extended to all of Guyana to develop a new attitude towards persons with varying forms of disabilities. “It begins with us training our minds to defining the persons with disabilities by the talent and skills they have rather than by defining them by the disabilities they have.“Once you can start training your minds in that regard there will be change, and I expect this in every sector to see improvements in the way we treat and deal with disabled persons,” the Minister stressed.According to Manickchand, regardless of the problems her Ministry faces, it will resort to ensuring that the public is always kept informed. “We are not afraid of the vulgar, opportunistic politicians who will jump on to that and use it as something to beat us into the ground,” the Minister told the Inclusive Expo’s gathering.“You will hear from us…So when our children are doing badly in Mathematics you will hear that from us because we know that the majority of Guyanese are going to stand with us to make the improvements…Whether it is that we cannot provide textbooks because it is too expensive, you will hear it from us not from someone else. Whether it is that we are not dealing with specific groups properly you will hear it from us,” said the Minister.