Theirworld’s published a report, “All Means All: A Call for Disability-Inclusive Early Years Financing”. Children with disabilities are 25% less likely to attend preschool than their peers and 49% more likely never to attend school at all.
Solutions already exist: Early childhood systems and services can be designed with all children in mind rather than governments retrofitting inclusion later at far greater cost. Theirworld’s report sets out recommendations for early years services.
Read the blog and access Theirworld’s report.
The Theirworld report was co-authored by Vibhu Sharma. Listen to EENET’s podcast episode with Vibhu, entitled “Assistive Tech: Starting early changes everything”.