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centres to be reviewed and additional centres

to be opened on a regional basis to provide 3,300

additional places in the coming decade;

(viii) special facilities to be provided for the education

of children with severe disabilities, including

(ix)

multiple disabilities; the quality of services

to be improved in special schools for blind, deaf,

maladjusted and physically disabled children;

consideration to be given to the provision of

social work services in special schools and

training centres;

much more to be done for the mentally retarded,

including a parent guidance service and additional

teaching staff to guide parents whose children could not

attend a school or training centre;

(x)

special classes, resource classes, and places in

hospital schools to be expanded at the maximum practicable

rate; testing programmes to be expanded in order to

determine demand accurately;

(xi) in view of the scale of development of special education,

the responsibility for developing different services to

be shared between the Education Department, the aided

schools and the private non-profit-making schools;

(xii) the Code of Aid for special schools and special and

resource classes to be revised to assist the aided

sector to take part in the provision of rehabilitation

services: improvements to be made to the manning scales

for teaching and ancillary staff, allowances for teaching

staff and sizes of classes; consideration to be given

to assisting private non-profit-making schools to

provide special education: