Over 1,500 disabled children in Nyanza region have been integrated into public schools.
Leonard Cheshire Disability Inclusive Education Advisor Orpa Ogot said the integration program has concentrated on girls with various disabilities as they are the most vulnerable in society.
Ms Ogot said some teachers in schools attended by the children have been trained and equipped with skills on how to handle such children.
“Leonard Cheshire Disability has managed to enroll many disabled children to public schools even though we found some few who had started attending lessons in those schools,” she said.
Speaking in Kisumu on Wednesday at St Vitalis Nanga Primary School at a meeting attended by four United Kingdom MPs representing the All Party Parliamentary Group on Inclusive Education, Ogot reiterated the need to ensure disabled children get education.
She said special schools were expensive for some parents who resort to stay with their disabled children at home.
Ms Ogot said most public schools were now sensitive to the needs of disabled children and were putting structures that ease movement within the schools for such children.
“Special schools are mostly boarding and many parents have to pay good money to keep their children in school. When that money is not available, such children miss school,” she said.
She urged parents not to lose hope with their children who are disabled but to give them love, support and education.