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These services are provided free and include psychological testing
and educational assessment for handicapped children, audiometric and
speech screening for primary school children, audiological testing for
children with suspected hearing-impairment, speech testing for children
with suspected speech defects, auditory and speech training for hearing-
impaired children and individual speech therapy for children with speech
defects.
Parents are urged to avail themselves of these specialists'
services to help their children if they find them slow learning, having
behaviour problems or handicaps in their sense of sight, hearing or speech.
Teachers are also urged to refer pupils with such problems to
the Special Education Section for specialists' attention.
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"Early assessment and proper treatment will prevent a minor
handicap from developing into a serious disability, a spokesman of the
Section said.
"Remedial measures based on specialists' recommendations will
enable children with hearing or behaviour problems to receive the correct
form of education and lead a normal life."
He revealed that his section planned to set up another centre in
Knowloon which would have the same comprehensive services.
In addition there are hospital schools for children undergoing
treatment or convalescing in hospitals.
Hospital school education prevents children from falling behind in
their studies when they rejoin normal classes after their discharge from
hospitals. It also keeps them usefully occupied while they are in hospitals.
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