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27. Recommendation: The assistance for residential adjustment should be

considered in accordance with the needs of the each person making the

request so that he or she could truly benefit from it. The maximum

amount of assistance granted should be reviewed to correspond more with

the current cost of living.

28. The DEP has a program to provide personal assistants to persons with

serious disabilities by developing a training course for interested persons.

Those who have attended the training course will be registered as personal

assistants and are entitled to receive a remuneration of 50 baht per hour

for a maximum of 6 hours per day. Currently, there are about 550 personal

assistants registered with the DEP, which is quite a small number compared

to the existing demand due to the limited budget allocated for this

purpose. Moreover, the fact that personal assistants cannot reimburse the

travel cost has been a disincentive for many assistants to give services to

persons with disabilities who live further away. The DEP has addressed

these problems by requesting the Council of Persons with Disabilities to

assist in organizing more training courses and seeking cooperation from

local administration organizations to allocate a specific budget for the

training. The DEP has also used the money from the Disabilities Fund to

support the travel costs for personal assistants. The reimbursement for

travel costs is limited to not more than 1,000 baht per month.

29. Parents of persons with disabilities who have attended a training course

for personal assistants cannot receive remuneration for assisting their

children. Concerned agencies deem it a duty of parents to take care of

their children, so they should not be paid for performing the task.

However, some parents have left their jobs to look after their children on a