2024年4月3日，新加坡社會及家庭發展部長兼衛生部第二部長，主管回教事務部長馬善高在國會上關於學前特殊需要兒童教育工作者培訓計劃的最新情況的發言。
以下內容為新加坡眼根據國會英文資料翻譯整理：
議員祖安清心女士（丹戎巴葛集選區）提問社會及家庭發展部長：是否有計劃逐步培訓能夠照顧和教導有特殊需求兒童的教育工作者，並將這些教育工作者安置在所有學前教育機構中。
馬善高（社會及家庭發展部長兼衛生部第二部長，主管回教事務部長）：
幼兒培育署（ECDA）致力於確保有發展需求的學齡前兒童得到有意義的培養和支持。因此，幼兒培育署已經啟動了一些提升學前教育工作者技能和水平的舉措。
幼兒培育署與國立幼兒培育教育學院（NIEC）及其他培訓機構合作，將學前教育的廣泛實踐納入在職學前教育工作者的幼兒職前培訓課程和持續專業發展課程。
在幼兒園內，需要中低水平早期干預（EI）支持的兒童也通過啟發輔助計劃——學習支持計劃（DS-LS）和包容性輔助試點計劃（InSP）獲得支持。幼兒培育署計劃將啟發輔助計劃——學習支持計劃擴展到80%的5至6歲學齡前兒童，並將包容性輔助試點計劃擴展到更多的學齡前兒童。這些課程由幼兒園的多學科早期干預專業團隊提供，如學習支持計劃教育工作者、早期干預教育工作者以及聯合衛生專業人員。
為了提高學習支持計劃教育工作者和早期干預教育工作者的能力，國立幼兒培育教育學院提供專業文憑課程，培訓教育工作者以掌握篩查工具和支持方法。
以下是英文質詢內容：
Ms Joan Pereira asked the Minister for Social and Family Development whether there are any plans to progressively train educators who are able to care for and teach children with special needs and place such educators in all pre-schools.
Mr Masagos Zulkifli B M M: The Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA) is committed to ensuring that children with developmental needs enrolled in preschools are meaningfully engaged and supported. ECDA has therefore embarked on initiatives to enhance the skills and competencies of educators in preschools.
ECDA works with the National Institute of Early Childhood Development (NIEC) and other training providers to incorporate inclusive practice into the curriculum of early childhood pre-service training courses and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses for in-service EC educators.
Within preschools, children requiring low to medium levels of early intervention (EI) support are also supported via the Development Support – Learning Support (DS-LS) programmes and Inclusive Support Programme (InSP). ECDA has plans to expand the DS-LS to cover 80% of preschoolers aged five to six and scale up the InSP to more preschools. These programmes are delivered at these preschools by a multi-disciplinary team of EI professionals, such as the Learning Support (LS) educators and EI educators as well as Allied Health Professionals.
To enhance capabilities of LS and EI educators, NIEC offers Specialist Diploma programmes to train the educators in administering screening tools and methods of support.
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