Mission accomplished

MORE than 40 student teachers, along with educators who are already in the classroom, have benefited from a one-week speech pathology workshop staged by a Diaspora-based non-profit organisation in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information.

The Unlocking Voices Educator Initiative is a programme of Speech and Scholars Project Incorporated, designed to improve the skills of special education teachers so they can better support children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

The workshop, which ran from October 12-16 at the Shortwood Teachers’ College, was intended to provide speech language services for more children with ASD in Jamaica, with a focus on those in underserved communities.