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Model Centre for Deaf Education and Training (MoCeDET)

Model Centre for Deaf Education and Training (MoCeDET)

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To make up for incidental or indirect learning not available to deaf children which leads them to begin school linguistically, cognitively and experientially well behind their hearing peers, MoCeDET exposes deaf children to various reading opportunities so that the innumerable instances of English constructs in their minds a workable syntax from which they learn the language. Model Centre for Deaf Education and Training (MoCeDET) is a non state actor registered by the Ministry of Education, as a capacity-focused, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to provide education and training opportunities to deaf learners in an Environment that is sensitive to their language and cultural needs, and to equip them to become self respecting and highly motivated persons. MoCeDET recognizes technology’s strong appeal to children and therefore uses the ReadingPen to make a difference in the way deaf children learn to read. This approach allows the deaf children to be active participants in the process of learning the English language which accelerates knowledge acquisition by providing the rich input that most hearing children acquire via incidental hearing. The persistent low levels of mastery of English are especially disturbing because they occur as the world moves ever deeper into the "information age"; a time in which society places premium on acquiring, analyzing, reporting and using information. Mastery of English is essential for such work. By using the ReadingPen, deaf children have been able to master the English language by honing their skills in vocabulary, spelling, grammar and comprehension. An ever growing proportion of business and other communication takes place today via email and other technologies. In order to take advantage of these technologies, deaf children must possess strong reading and writing skills. For forty years, it is an unsurprising consequence that time spent in class by deaf children has not been productive in advancing their education. At MoCeDET, teaching the English language is only a supplement to active learning. The emphasis is on supporting the learning of language rather than on its teaching.

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Education
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Africa
Kenya
Not particularly
MoCeDET

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http://www.mocedet.or.ke/

+ 254 020 2017713 

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