The training was aimed at breaking barriers as well as to accommodate students with learning difficulties in The Gambia.
In an interview with The Point shortly after the workshop, Reverend Michael Angley Ogwuche, Chaplain/ Podcaster at the Ministry of Justice, UK said dyslexia is a learning disability or learning difficulties. He added that it is a situation where some students are slow in learning or have different ways of learning.
“The meeting was about helping the teachers to identify and understand that students are different in learning. I experienced learning difficulties, and this is why, I had the passion to come to The Gambia to share my life experience with people. I started with teachers because they are the ones that would be teaching in classrooms,” he stated.
“Sometime teachers blame the child but I am saying that the teachers are to be blamed. This is because they do not know that the child have learning difficulties. I was researching The Gambia dyslexia and only found an article on The Point Newspaper which is the reason I came to The Gambia because I thought a seed has already been sown,” he also said.
He pointed out that it is important to bring dyslexia or learning difficulties to policy makers, noting that their plan is to register the project in The Gambia which will be the first in Africa.
He went on to say that, with the registration of the project, no Gambian child with dyslexia would be left behind.
Dyslexia is a broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person’s fluency or accuracy in being able to read, speak and spell. It can manifest itself at a very young age.
Reverend Michael Angley Ogwuche is an ordained Minister and a professional with a strong foundation in practical theology. He holds a BA (Hons) in Theology and a PGDip in the same field.
