Education Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon is urging the country’s educators to take up scholarships designed to train specialists who work with an ever-increasing number of children with special needs. “This is where we’re also going to need your help because the ministry has several scholarships in this area and we’re asking our teachers to take up these scholarships. We also have scholarships at the Ministry of Health level for the [Dr] Barrington Wint Scholarship where we’re trying to get Jamaicans to sign up to do courses like speech therapy, and also occupational therapy and behavioural therapy, because our children need those services,” stated Morris Dixon.
