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centres to be reviewed and additional centres
to be opened on a regional basis to provide 3,300
additional places in the coming decade;
(viii) special facilities to be provided for the education
of children with severe disabilities, including
(ix)
multiple disabilities; the quality of services
to be improved in special schools for blind, deaf,
maladjusted and physically disabled children;
consideration to be given to the provision of
social work services in special schools and
training centres;
much more to be done for the mentally retarded,
including a parent guidance service and additional
teaching staff to guide parents whose children could not
attend a school or training centre;
(x)
special classes, resource classes, and places in
hospital schools to be expanded at the maximum practicable
rate; testing programmes to be expanded in order to
determine demand accurately;
(xi) in view of the scale of development of special education,
the responsibility for developing different services to
be shared between the Education Department, the aided
schools and the private non-profit-making schools;
(xii) the Code of Aid for special schools and special and
resource classes to be revised to assist the aided
sector to take part in the provision of rehabilitation
services: improvements to be made to the manning scales
for teaching and ancillary staff, allowances for teaching
staff and sizes of classes; consideration to be given
to assisting private non-profit-making schools to
provide special education: