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private schools, by 1st April 1985;
(v) additional facilities for speech and auditory
training for pre-school children with impaired
hearing to be provided;
(vi) subvention to nurseries to be increased to
enable more disabled children to be admitted;
(vii) special school places to be increased during
the next decade as follows:
schools for the deaf - 240 additional places;
schools for the blind 75 additional places;
schools for the mentally retarded and educationally
sub-normal children · 7,572 additional places;
schools for the maladjusted 420 additional places;
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schools for the physically disabled 115 additional
places;
(viii) places in special classes to be increased during the
next decade as follows:
180 additional places for partially-hearing children;
165 additional places for partially-sighted children;
8,760 additional places for slow-learning children;
750 additional places for maladjusted children;
(ix) the Code of Aid for Special Education to be improved;
(x) resource classes to be increased during the next
(xi)
decade as follows:
10,500 additional primary places;
9,600 additional secondary places;
260 additional places in hospital schools to be
provided during the next decade;
(xii) prevocational and vocational training services
for the disabled to be provided in the long term
by the Education Department;