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Special education report now ready in Chinese
School sponsors, serving school principals and teachers, practitioners in special education sector and related fields and members of the public are invited to give views and suggestions on a report on the review of local special education.
The Report, prepared by the Board of Education Sub-committee on Special Education, recommends a package of comprehensive measures to improve special education in the territory.
It offers 70 improvement recommendations, covering 10 areas in special education:
administration and co-ordination of special education;
educational concerns in special education;
provisions in the Code of Aid for special schools;
the curriculum and related matters;
teacher education;
education for children with learning difficulties;
education fro the gifted;
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education for the maladjusted;
practical schools and skills opportunity schools; and
other measures for further improvement.
Copies of the report in Chinese will be available for collection tomorrow (Tuesday) afternoon at the Education Department's reception counter on 10th floor, Wu Chung House, 213 Queen's Road East, Wan Chai, and Perth Street Special Education Services Centre, 6 Perth Street, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon.
The English version of the report and the executive summary (in English and Chinese) have already been distributed to the public in early June.
Views and suggestions on the report should reach the Board Secretary, Mrs Fanny Lam, at Room 1123, Education Department Headquarters, Wu Chung House, on or before next Monday (July 8).
Enquiries about the report may be directed to Mrs Lam on 2892 6630.
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