Basseterre: St. Kitts, Tuesday, December 02, 2025: A two-day workshop was attended by fourteen (14) educators, specializing in constructing their abilities in using inclusive methods tailor-made for college students who’re blind and visually impaired.
The workshop, of a bigger four-day occasion hosted by the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Getting older and Disabilities came about on the
ICT Heart’s Massive Coaching room on Tuesday, December 02 and Wednesday, December 03.
Mrs. Marecia Browne, Coordinator, Disabilities Companies within the Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Getting older and Disabilities outlined the necessity for the workshop.
“We felt it was crucial as a result of we’re shifting in direction of an inclusive society, which implies within the numerous areas of society we have now to search out methods to incorporate individuals with disabilities. As regards to schooling, we have now discover that there’s additionally a transfer in direction of inclusive schooling the place college students usually are not solely simply referred to the Cotton Thomas Complete Faculty, however they’re
now enrolling in ‘mainstream’ colleges. Having realized this shift, we notice that our colleges should be ready to simply accept college students with disabilities.”
Workshop facilitator, The Most Honourable Kerryann Ifill FB, SCM, Assistive Expertise Coach with the federal government of Barbados and Public Relations Officer for the Nationwide United Society of the Blind Barbados, supplied a abstract the workshop, explaining its goal and desired outcomes.
“The workshop is on the invitation of the St. Kitts and Nevis authorities to conduct coaching for academics, college students and oldsters in inclusive practices for the schooling of blind and visually impaired college students. The meant consequence is to show primarily the educators and the scholars to what’s attainable within the classroom for college students with visible impairment, serving to to debunk myths, serving to folks to know what is obtainable, what they’ll do, what sources are on the market and the way they’ll undertake them to incorporate college students who’re visually impaired,” she shared.
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