Monday, August 20, 1973
MORE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES FOR HANDICAPPED
Special classes for handicapped children will be extended to
aided primary schools in the new academic year which starts next month.
Supervised by the Special Education Section of the Education
Department, these classes are designed for less severely handicapped
children such as the slow learning, the partially hearing and the partially
sighted.
At present, special classes are run only in government primary
schools. It is planned that by the beginning of the next school year
there will be a total of 86 such classes in government primary schools.
In addition, eleven such classes will be operated in four subsidised
primary schools the Po Leung Kuk Primary School, Our Lady of China
Primary School in Kwun Tong, the St. John Bosco School, Ngau Tau Kok Branch,
and the Holy Cross Lutheran School in Tsuen Wan.
The Special Education Section regularly runs one-year in-service
training courses for teachers of blind, partially sighted, deaf, partially
hearing, physically handicapped, slow learning, maladjusted and socially
deprived children in special schools and classes,
The section also runs a special education service centre at Sir
Ellis Kadoorie Primary School at Hospital Road in the Western District to
provide diagnostic and remedial services.
These services
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