ACHIEVEMENT ATTAINED
Revising the B.Ed, M.Ed programs, and initiating the development of three new programs namely: M.Ed in speech and language pathology, PhD in Special Needs Education and Postgraduate Diploma in Psycho-Educational assessment.
The Department has initiated five collaborations (one local and four international) for Kenyatta University. Four of these collaborations are active and two of them have initiated a baseline study at pilot levels.
- PAGEL project
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA – Research and assistive technology in the area of Visual Impairment.
- The University of Louisiana At Lafayette (UL Lafayette) Louisiana, USA - Research and assessment of students who are gifted and talented. (Have already done the pilot study with 45 students online).
- Stadi Za Maisha Educational Trust (SZ MET) – Assessment of children and youth who are gifted and talented.
- CLASP International (CLASP), Dallas, Texas – Curriculum in Speech and Language Pathology – A Masters course for Kenyatta University students taking courses within the department.
- The University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA – Curriculum in Applied Behaviour Analysis – A Masters course for students taking Special Needs Education at the Department.
- Assessing children for Stadi za Maisha under MoU between Kenyatta University, Ministry of Education and Stadi za Maisha.
Through these collaborations we have had students from Tokyo and Canada on exchange programs through Directorate Centre for Linkages and International Programmes.