{"id":50,"date":"2009-01-13T20:37:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T20:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/eyecarecaribbean\/2009\/01\/13\/inclusive-education-programs-in-the-caribbean\/"},"modified":"2009-01-13T20:37:38","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T20:37:38","slug":"inclusive-education-programs-in-the-caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/media-items\/inclusive-education-programs-in-the-caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Inclusive Education programs in the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Over the past 20 years, we established or improved 10 national education programs for children with blindness or visual impairment, trained more than 55 teachers to work with the children and facilitated the graduation of more than 450 children from our partner inclusive education programs. <\/span><\/p>\n

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FROM SPECIAL SCHOOLS TO MAINSTREAMING
THE CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arvel Grant, Executive Director, Caribbean Council for the Blind<\/p>\n

Context: Caribbean area<\/p>\n

Countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & The Grenadines & Trinidad & Tobago.
Population: approx 12.9M
Languages: English, and French<\/p>\n

CCB: Established in 1967 by Sir John Wilson (RCSB)
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 Most Caribbean countries are members (except Cuba ands Domincan Republic)
 Supported by Sight Savers International since 1967<\/div>\n

Key programme areas: eye care, education, CBR (Adjustment to Blindness) advocacy and RM <\/p>\n

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1. How did we achieve inclusive education, (integrated education or mainstreaming)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Between the late 50s and the late 70s there were three (3) institutions which provided education for children with blindness or visual impairment:<\/p>\n