THE dearth of public school spaces for children with special needs and the astronomical price tag to get a seat in private schools has triggered a cry for government intervention from a group of c.
With fewer than 10 speech pathologists serving adults and children alike in the island, The Mico University College Child Assessment and Research in Education (CARE) Centre is teaming with an Amer.
The field of Speech-Language Pathology, and its treatment services, are in significant shortage, not only in Jamaica, but worldwide. Last year in the United States alone, statistics revealed that some 1.2 million children were diagnosed with a.
NEGRIL, Westmoreland Arguing that special needs students are now being foisted onto schools whose curricula are not equipped to deal with them, newly installed president of the Jamaica Teachers'.