The Headmaster of the Research Utilisation School For the Deaf (RUSFORD) in Obuasi, Mr Agyemang Prempeh, has appealed to parents with hearing-impaired children not to delay in sending them to school.
He said the delay in sending those children to school affected their ability to learn and also delayed their progress in life.
Aside from that, he said the school found it difficult to control the grown-up children and believed that had an effect on their education.
In an interview with the Daily Graphic, Mr Prempeh said the use of sign language to teach had a serious effect on the ability of the students to acquire more fluency in the English Language as not all the words could be intepreted through sign language.
He believed that if the children were brought to school early and introduced to the sign language and taught how to read, they would be in a position to deepen their understanding of the English Language and also improve their vocabulary.
Another challenge facing the school, he said, was the lack of sign language teachers.
That, he said, had compelled the school to merge some of the classes to enable one teacher to take care of more than one class.
Currently, Mr Prempeh said, the school had only seven teachers taking care of all pupils from Primary One to the JHS level and, therefore, appealed to the government for assistance to recruit more teachers to help provide basic education to the children.
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