Reaching students with disabilities with holistic support
UNICEF promotes the establishment of early intervention and support services for families of children with disabilities.
Even after 40 years of providing speech therapy to children with disabilities, Zohre Tursunova finds her work deeply satisfying. By teaching a child who has difficulty hearing how to read lips and teaching their parent how to sign, she’s able to help parent and child communicate with each other for the first time.
Today, Zohre is pursuing her life’s work in a multi-disciplinary centre in Turkmenabat City, where children with disabilities receive speech therapy, psychological support, early learning and physical education. For Zohre, this represents a powerful breakthrough—for the first time, children with disabilities and their families receive support to facilitate their further inclusion in mainstream society.
UNICEF promotes the establishment of early intervention and support services for families of children with disabilities, across the network of rehabilitation centres. The aim is to cultivate these services as family support and resource centres designed to foster inclusiveness for children with disabilities.
