Identification and assessment of disabilities for children is aimed at, mostly, provision of special needs support to children (with disabilities), as well as enabling them to have their basic rights, including education, through inclusive education programmes. Launching the ESRAC this week, Director of Special Education in the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST), Dr Margreth Matonya, who represented the Commissioner for Education (in MoEST), commented that: “Assessment of children means a lot, it goes beyond determining severity of disability, strengths of a child and individual learning needs suitable for each of the child.