taken from: http://www.specialchildrenuganda.org/disability-in-uganda.html Disability in Uganda Although all children have a right to be educated, this right was not easy to be implemented earlier. Children with disability were not being catered for or neither being considered as worthy educable. Uganda like all developing countries saw the need to develop the activities of Special Education to meet the needs of children with disabilities. In the beginning, the provision of Special Education was purely in the hands of the Non Government Organization (NGO) who were mainly missionaries and some relatives who needed to educate their children or relatives. The development of services for persons with disabilities was either hindered or accelerated by the perception and conceptions a community had concerning the target group. Uganda Government did not posses any legislation as regards the education of persons with disability before 1980. People with disabilities were taken as sick, possesse