China News Service, Hong Kong, October 28. During the consultation period of this year's "policy address", some people believe that the surplus places in the dormitory department of special schools can be used to provide temporary residential places for former school graduates during long holidays.
The Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Carrie Lam visited a special school and a kindergarten-cum-kindergarten in Sham Shui Po on the 28th to learn about the dormitories and explore the feasibility of the proposals.
Carrie Lam visited a special school and a kindergarten-cum-kindergarten in Sham Shui Po in the morning to learn about the SAR government and social welfare agencies providing services to students and young children with special needs.
In recent years, the SAR government has allocated additional resources to cater for students with different needs.
Take special education as an example. Every public-run ordinary school has added a special education needs coordinator and strengthened support for students with autism. As for subsidized special schools, they have also increased the number of school social workers and improved the staffing of the dormitory department. Strengthen support for schools and students.
Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor knows that after students leave school, many parents find it difficult to take care of them because they are unable to connect to rehabilitation services immediately.
During the consultation period of this year’s Policy Address, some people believed that the surplus places in the dormitory department of special schools could be used to provide temporary residential places for the original school graduates during long holidays.
During her visit today, Carrie Lam deliberately learned about the dormitory situation to explore the feasibility of the proposal.
In 2018, the SAR government regularized the "Pre-school Rehabilitation Service Pilot Scheme for Schools". The Social Welfare Department commissioned a non-governmental organization to form a multi-professional team to provide more than 80% of kindergartens or kindergartens-cum-child care centers in Hong Kong with special learning needs Outreach to school rehabilitation services, team members include occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech therapists, etc.
Last month, the SAR government increased the number of service places to more than 8,000. In the next two academic years, it will add another 1,000 places each year. By the 2022/23 school year, the total number will reach 10,000, achieving the "zero" set by the Chief Executive in the 2018 Policy Address. Waiting for the goal.
Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said that early support for children with special learning needs will not only help them grow up healthily, relieve their parents' anxiety, but also reduce the need for special education and adult rehabilitation services in the future. This is a meaningful expenditure.
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