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MORE secondary school teachers will be equipped to help students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia or autism.
The Education Ministry is revising its target so that by 2012, 20 per cent of mainstream secondary school teachers will have good knowledge of special needs education.
Its target is now 10 per cent of all primary and secondary school teachers.
Secondary schools are now the focus because students are generally taught by more teachers at that level, said Education and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam.
The minister was guest of honour at yesterday's Dyslexia Association of Singapore Student Graduation and Special Achievement Awards.
More than 60 students from various schools received certificates and awards for having learnt to read and spell at a level appropriate for their age.
All new teachers already undergo a compulsory module in dealing with special needs students as part of their initial training.
But since 2005, the Education Ministry has also been coaching mainstream teachers under a separate initiative.
By next year, 1,125 teachers in primary and secondary schools would have had the extra training.
Mrs Florence Ruth Loo, a counsellor at Mayflower Primary School, said students will benefit from the larger pool of trained teachers: 'There will be continuous support from primary to secondary school, and that would really help them.'
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