A non governmental organization, Lyceum Foundation has called on state government to provide more funds for special and main stream education in state owned primary and secondary schools to train teachers and solve the problems of learning disabilities among pupils.
Director of the Foundation, Mrs Maureen Ola-williams, stated this while addressing the teachers on Thursday at the Special Education Need Training for Ogun State Teachers in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, held at St. Peters College Olomore, Abeokuta, the state capital.
Ola-williams said that if the Dapo Abiodun led administration pumps more funds into both special and main stream schools such would go a long way to train the teachers and increase learning abilities of pupils in public schools thus making them to thrive in their academic pursuit.
She said that as a matter of urgency government needed to create more resources for educational sector and provide adequate training for teachers and provide facilities that would aid pupils with learning difficulties and help them to succeed academically.
The educationist opined that the purpose of the training is to educate the teachers on how to manage pupils and students of state owned primary and secondary schools with learning disabilities like on how to better understand what is taught by their teachers in classrooms.
She said "That is the purpose of this training to know that 1 in 10 of every child has learning difficulties. Some who have this learning disabilities are virtual learners, you need things like technology like smart bulb, you need apps and those require funding."
"So if government create enough resources and fund the school educational sector and also create more training like this and provision and implementation of amenities that will help the children thrive learn and favour those who have learning difficulties." She added
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