Webster U. support inclusive education efforts in Kazakhstan [Video]

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Imagine starting a new education system that supports with disabilities. Now try to do that for an entire different country.

If you ever decide to do that in your life somehow, you would almost assuredly ask for help.

That’s the situation Webster University now finds itself in. The school is working with educational leaders in Kazakhstan to improve education efforts for kids with disabilities in the country.

“Kazakhstan is a developing country and similar to the United States, it is undergoing a journey about how it provides education to all it students, including those with disabilities,” said Stephanie Mahfood, Interim Dean of the School of Education at Webster University on Total Information A.M. Tuesday.

Kazakhstan is a huge country with a large mountainous terrain, it makes education efforts in the country very difficult for kids.

Mahfood said she and the university got seriously involved with helping improve education in …