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Special schools for hearing impaired children:
There are 4 special schools for hearing impaired children in the territory. Two are located in Hong Kong, one of which is a secondary school while the other is a primary school. The other two schools are located in different districts of Kowloon to cater for both primary and secondary pupils with hearing impairment in Kowloon. In order to maintain the minimum class structure to cater for hearing impaired children in the territory, there is a need to have four special schools for hearing impaired children despite a relatively low enrolment situation.
Hospital school:
There is only one hospital school operating in 16 hospitals to cater for hospitalised compulsory school-aged children in different districts. The enrolment situation in the hospital school fluctuates throughout the year owing to the number of pupils admitted to and discharged from the hospital. For example, in July 1996, the enrolment figure was 458, which was 95.2% of the capacity.
Special schools for maladjusted children:
Children with
a transient problem. Maladjustment is maladjustment will return to the mainstream as soon as they are ready for re-integration. Thus, the turnover rates in these schools are high.
According to our records, there has been an average of 122 declined cases annually for the maladjusted, which is comparatively higher than those in other categories of special schools. Most of these children declined special school placement for the following reasons:
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Objection from parents who are concerned with the possible stigmatizing effect of this type of special school;
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Objection from pupils;