Speaking after holding the union’s national elections at a Narok hotel, the re-elected Secretary General (SG) James Torome expressed that the union will focus on service delivery for special needs teachers as well as the special needs students.

Special needs students face a myriad of challenges pointing out that more resources should be channeled to special needs education. She urges the government to supply facemasks and sanitizers to the special needs schools for the sake of improving health care.

He says there is need for the government to look into the plight of blind students who use Braille that are too expensive to afford. He said they are limited due to the high cost of learning equipment insisting that the decapitation fee should be increased from the current Sh 2,100 per student.

He says special needs education is designed to facilitate the learning of individuals who, for a wide variety of reasons, require additional support and adaptive pedagogical methods in order to participate and meet learning objectives in an educational programme’