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in ordinary child care centres.

(c) to provide nine years of subsidised general education in

hospital and special schools, special and resource classes

and special places in ordinary classes with peripatetic

services as appropriate for all disabled children and

thereafter facilities in accordance with the general

expansion of senior secondary education for those disabled

children who are capable of receiving it;

(d) to transfer the responsibility for the training of all

mentally handicapped children of school age from the

Social Welfare Department to the Education Department

commencing April 1979;

(e) to transfer the responsibility for the planning and

development of prevocational and vocational training for

disabled persons from the Social Welfare Department to the

Education Department commencing September 1980.

(iii) Note on standards of provision:

Under the special codes of

aid the following standards apply to special schools and

special classes, as appropriate:

(a) maximum size of classes:

8

A

severely mentally handicapped;

10 deaf and partially hearing; moderately mentally

handicapped; multi-handicapped;

15 blind and partially sighted;

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20 physically handicapped; slow-learning, mildly mentally

handicapped.

(b) staff ratio:

primary 1.2 teachers per class

secondary

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1.4 teachers per class