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Special education for disabled students

Nearly 1-2 percent are disabled:

Of the 1.4 million student population in the country, 1-2 percent are disabled students.

They are directed towards a special education system in view of their disabilities, Sri Lanka Foundation for the Rehabilitation of the Disabled Secretary Cyril Siriwardena said.

Addressing a recently held workshop he said according to 2009 statistics 52,000 students with disabilities are referred for special education.

Under the compulsory education ordinance of Sri Lanka, disabled children have the same right to education as all other children, he said. Children with disabilities face a number of problems in education including poverty, access to physical environment and public transport, attitudes of parents and teachers and insufficient resources for inclusive education.

The Disability Organizations Joint Front Secretary R A Sirisena said, one problem that visually impaired children and hearing impaired children face is they do not receive text books on time. Text books are provided in braille by the Government only for students from year one to Ordinary Level whilst no books on their subjects or additional reading material required by Advanced Level and University students are being provided.

Very often hearing impaired children are admitted to school after passing the required age limit. No pre-schools system has been implemented for them up to now, a spokesman for the Sri Lanka Central Federation of the Deaf said.

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