stone was laid on 29 January. Originally conceived as a hostel and centre for the blind, it has now been renamed an ‘Advanced Training Institute for the Blind' to emphasize that it serves the more urgent need for training to follow secondary education. The Canossa School for Blind Girls and the Ebenezer School and Home received increasing support and guidance from the Special Education Section of the Education Department.
DEAF WELFARE
54. A report by Dr D. R. FRISINA, Professor of Audiology and Director of the Hearing and Speech Centre at Gallaudet College, Washington, on the Educational Aspects of Deafness in Hong Kong has recommended concerted action by the Education, Social Welfare and Medical Departments in rehabilitating the deaf; this report is still being studied. As a first step, an officer of the Department has now completed a course on audio-communicative disability at New York University which has prepared him to undertake vocational guidance of the deaf.
55. The Victoria Park School for the Deaf took in twenty-two more children; four hundred and seventeen deaf children are now in special school. Places are also available in the various clubs operated by the Department at Wong Tai Sin, Lei Cheng Uk and Tsan Yuk, and at the new club for deaf children opened at Chai Wan on 20 November. This now has thirty-five members bringing the total number in the four clubs to a hundred and seventy-six. The 95th Hong Kong Scout Troop consisting of twelve deaf scouts was inaugurated on 27 February. But there are still two hundred and sixty-nine deaf children on the register who are neither in a special school nor in a club. Seventy-six children were given financial aid towards their schooling by Lutheran World Service, and two hundred and eleven received hearing aids purchased with charitable funds. The Department also found work for a hundred and forty-two adult deaf people, most of them in textile factories.
PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED
56. The medical rehabilitation centre run by the Hong Kong Society for Rehabilitation at Kwun Tong aims particularly at restoring disabled persons to full or partial working capacity as quickly as possible, and sixty-five persons were under treatment there at the close of the year. The Princess Alexandra Children's Home, operated by the British Red Cross Society, is filled to its capacity of sixty-two crippled children,
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