Akropong (E/R), April 9, GNA - As part of measures to improve and raise the standard of education in the Akuapem North Municipality, Giraffe Mobile Education Project, a Non- Governmental Organization (NGO) based in the UK has organized a training for 50 educationists on dyslexia difficulty.
Dyslexia is a condition which often makes children affected by it to be slow learners.
The training seeks to empower the leaders of the various schools to encourage and inspire the school children with such challenges to bring out the best qualities in them.
The participants who were drawn from the Municipality were made up of heads of basic schools, circuit supervisors and other relevant stakeholders in education.
A London based teacher and a trainer for dyslexia support in schools, Mrs Fiona Tredinnick who was the resource person, explained that dyslexia which was a learning difficulty sometimes was classified as a disability if it was severe, because it had implications on the performance of the child at school.
She said traditional education had turned away from children who did not learn the normal way, sit down and listen, because dyslexic learners have difficulty with auditory.
Mrs Tredinnick said because dyslexic learners have learning differences, there was the need to adopt more exciting ways of teaching such children with the use of visual diagrams, colour, fun, humour and use of things that could make the student to hang on to the teaching .
The Founder of Giraffe Mobile Education Project, Ms Winifred Obese-Bempong, said every child have a gift and talent, however, they just needed someone to help in developing that hiding talent.
“For us we feel we will be able to support the education system in Akropong by coming in with this project to inspire the schools and to make education as fun as possible,” she said.
The Member of Parliament for Akropong, Nana Ama Dokua Asiamah-Adjei, called on teachers to identify the various categories of students in their classes, fast learners, average learners and the slower learners and help each in their categories.
She said it was only under such conditions that such issues like dyslexia and other learning difficulties could be addressed.
A participant, Mrs Ruth Tetteh, Headmistress of Akropong Anglican Basic School, said before the training she had little knowledge on the dyslexia, but she was aware some children had individual differences.
She advocated for more opportunities to be allocated to such children who needed extra attention in order to academically catch up with their colleagues to help develop their God given abilities.
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