wonderful memories. This journey will be
lifelong for many. Every year, we continue
the planning and learning process by revisiting our vision, mission, goals, and stakeholders' views of the situation, setting a
new plan of action and accountable members, providing professional development
for teachers, assessing and providing intervention for children, sharing our program
process with the national government officials, and we are often interviewed by several local and national television stations.
This successful project has been possible
through the long term efforts and partnership of Hondurans and North Americans.
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Seven years ago, we began the process
with one North American speech therapist and
one Honduran doctor contemplating the possibility of providing education for children with
special needs. Where are we now? As of October 2013, we had three teachers providing educational support services for 92 children with
identified disabilities. These teachers are providing educational support services in the area
of cognition, speech, language, hearing, general
academic assistance, Honduran Sign Language
instruction, and early intervention. The CIPIE
program is supported through a local Honduran
board of directors, a group of physicians, a special education supervisor consultant, North
American advisory committee, resources from
SCW, Santa Cruz de Yojoa government and the
