Hearing impaired students cannot have education beyond SHS

People suffering from hearing impairment in the country cannot pursue education beyond Senior High School (SHS), because of lack of logistics to aid their teaching and learning in tertiary institutions.

This compels hearing impaired students to pay for students’ user fees and engage sign language interpreters at their own expense in institutions of higher education.

Mr Samuel Asan, former National President of the Society for the Hearing Impaired, made this known at a National Bible Camp for the Deaf organised by the Church of Christ at Akropong-Akuapem in the Eastern Region on Wednesday.

He said there is only one SHS in the country for people with hearing impairment at Mampong-Akuapem.

Mr Asan said apart from logistics and other needs of the school students are not exposed to lectures in Information, Communication and Technology because the academic facility has no computers to facilitate the process.

Mr Asan noted that the school library is also too small for the students’ population and therefore appealed to government to reverse the situation. GNA