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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1987

"IN

ABOUT 1,100 OUT OF

WE RECENT YEARS, AWARENESS OF CHILDREN'S SPECIAL NEEDS 3,700 INDIVIDUAL

ARE

HAPPY TO OBSERVE BY THE PUBLIC REFERRAL CASES

AN

INCREASING

AT LARGE AND WERE

MADE BY

PARENTS IN 1986/87," HE SAID.

CHILDREN

IDENTIFIED TO

INDIVIDUAL

AND ASSESSMENT

HAVE PROBLEMS WERE GIVEN

TREATMENT FOLLOW-UP

IN THE

DETAILED RELEVANT

PROBLEMS AREA.

J

TO

ON REMEDIAL SERVICES, MR LAN SAID IT WAS THE PRESENT POLICY

INTO ORDINARY SCHOOLS HELP CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS TO INTEGRATE

BENEFIT OF AS FAR AS POSSIBLE SO THAT THEY COULD RECEIVE THE FULLEST

WITH ORDINARY CHILDREN IN A EDUCATION FROM MIXING AND INTERACTING NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.

TEACHERS IN DEALING WITH TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT TO

AND

SERVICE STRENGTHENING GUIDANCE

IN PUPILS' PROBLEMS

SECONDARY SCHOOLS, MR LAN SAID A PILOT SCHOOLS SUPPORT SCHEME WAS INTRODUCED IN OCTOBER LAST YEAR IN 12 SECONDARY SCHOOLS. A FULL PROJECT WOULD BE CARRIED OUT IN 1987/88.

EVALUATION OF THE

ON FUTURE DEVELOPMENT, MR LAN SAID

PURPOSE-BUILT, TWO EDUCATIONAL AND MULTI-DISCIPLINARY

WERE MEDICAL CENTRES

IN THE BUILT IN HIGH STREET ON PIPELINE. ONE OF THE NEW CENTRES WOULD BE HONG KONG ISLAND WHILE THE OTHER IN HA KWAI CHUNG.

CLOSER WILL BE NEEDS WILL BE

"WHEN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THESE CENTRES ARE COMPLETED,

WITH PROFESSIONALS FROM OTHER DISCIPLINES CO-ORDINATION FACILITATED AND OUR SERVICES TO CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL MORE EFFICIENTLY OPERATED, MR LAN SAID.

T

SOME CHILDREN AND THEIR EDUCATIONAL

HE ADDED.

"DESPITE SUCH A NETWORK OF SUPPORTIVE SERVICES, MAY HAVE SERIOUS PROBLEMS OR SEVERE HANDICAPS NEEDS CANNOT BE MET ADEQUATELY IN AN ORDINARY SCHOOL,

I

EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES IN A SCHOOLS OFFERING

FOR THESE CHILDREN, MR LAN SAID SPECIAL SCHOOL WERE PROVIDED AND THERE WERE 70 SUCH OVER 8,000 PLACES FOR THE BLIND, THE DEAF, THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED,

SOCIALLY DEPRIVED AND THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED, THE MALADJUSTED AND CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES.

THE "IT IS ENCOURAGING TO NOTE

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS OF OUR THOSE WHO NOT ONLY HAVE OVERCOME THEIR HANDICAPS BUT ALSO ENTERED COMMUNITY AFTER FORMAL EDUCATION AS INDEPENDENT, ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS, HE SAID.

It

ARE "WE HAVE AMONG US ACCOUNTANTS, EXECUTIVES AND TEACHERS WHO

10 MOST DEAF, BLIND OR PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED. WE STILL REMEMBER THE

RECEIVED THEIR AWARDS DURING THE OUTSTANDING DISABLED PERSONS WHO

DISABLED PERSONS

ARE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF

AND WE

PROUD OF THE ATHLETES IN THE SPECIAL REMARKABLE PERFORMANCES OF OUR HANDICAPPED OLYMPICS," MR LAN SAID.

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