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private schools, by 1st April 1985;

(v) additional facilities for speech and auditory

training for pre-school children with impaired

hearing to be provided;

(vi) subvention to nurseries to be increased to

enable more disabled children to be admitted;

(vii) special school places to be increased during

the next decade as follows:

schools for the deaf - 240 additional places;

schools for the blind 75 additional places;

schools for the mentally retarded and educationally

sub-normal children · 7,572 additional places;

schools for the maladjusted 420 additional places;

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schools for the physically disabled 115 additional

places;

(viii) places in special classes to be increased during the

next decade as follows:

180 additional places for partially-hearing children;

165 additional places for partially-sighted children;

8,760 additional places for slow-learning children;

750 additional places for maladjusted children;

(ix) the Code of Aid for Special Education to be improved;

(x) resource classes to be increased during the next

(xi)

decade as follows:

10,500 additional primary places;

9,600 additional secondary places;

260 additional places in hospital schools to be

provided during the next decade;

(xii) prevocational and vocational training services

for the disabled to be provided in the long term

by the Education Department;