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Britain and other English-speaking countries.

A number of very

reputable non-government organisations also provide similar advisory

services. Misleading advertisements occasionally appear in the local

press for profit-making educational institutions overseas and these

are a source of trouble from time to time.

2.32 Special education

The development of special education is

part of a comprehensive government rehabilitation programme, the

policy objective of which is "to provide such comprehensive rehabili-

tation services as are necessary to enable disabled persons to develop

their physical, mental and social capabilities to the fullest extent

to which their disabilities permit" (1977 White Paper: Integrating

the Disabled into the Community).

Preventive measures in the form of

screening, assessment and remedial services have been adopted by the

Education Department's Special Education Section to identify disabilities

in school-age children and to take remedial action as soon as possible.

Special schools are provided in the government-aided sector for the

blind, the deaf, the maladjusted and socially deprived, the physically

disabled and the mentally handicapped. Special classes and resource

classes are provided in many public-sector schools and a number of

less-severely physically disabled children have been integrated into

ordinary classes.

2.33

A notable recent development has been the implementation of

the White Paper policy to provide education for all mentally-

handicapped children, irrespective of the degree of their handicap,

and a number of centres for the mentally handicapped which were

previously subvented by the Social Welfare Department have accordingly

been transferred to the Education Department. There are now about