By Richard Opoku | Programmes Director
Special Attention Project (SAP) is making major efforts to bridge the knowledge gap on learning difficulties and change how parents interpret the learning problems of their children in Ghana.
From September to December 2018, SAP intensified its behavior change communication campaign, reaching out to about 4,000 parents through face-to-face information sharing sessions during parents and teachers’ association (PTA), religious group and other social group meetings.
The parents learned about how to recognise symptoms of learning difficulties in children, the practical measures they could take to help children with learning difficulties, and the role the parents could play to promote the inclusion of their children in mainstream schools.
“I now understand the learning problem of my child better. He’s 11 years but finds it difficult to read and write. I have been shouting at him a lot because I used to think sometimes that he was being lazy and didn’t want to learn,” a parent shared at the PTA meeting of the Garrison Primary Junior High School at Burma Camp, Accra. Over 500 parents received information on learning difficulties in this school alone.
“Thank you SAP for this education! This is my first time of hearing about these learning difficulties. I now know about Dyslexia [difficulties in reading and writing] and Dyscalculia (difficulties in maths]. I think SAP needs to do spread more information on learning difficulties to sensitise more parents,” a parent from the Flagstaff Basic School in Accra stated.
“I’m very delighted to be part of this meeting. I’m a teacher and more often, you are likely to label a child as ‘dumb’ if that child can’t learn like his/her peers. I have learned a lot from this sensitisation on learning difficulties,” a member stated during SAP’s joint meeting with Success Book Club and Achievers Ghana in Mamoobi, Accra.
SAP remains committed to sensitising and empowering a large number of parents with information on learning difficulties.
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