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there is only one such center in each province. This has made it difficult

for children living far away to travel to the center.

38. One major obstacle to providing quality education to children with

disabilities is the lack of personnel with proper knowledge and skills.

Schools generally do not have qualified teachers. In schools where

children with disabilities are learning together with other children, teachers

are not adequately trained. This has affected the learning of children with

disabilities and has usually resulted in the suspension of study and, in

many cases, the acquittal of children from the school. In some schools,

there are not enough assistants in class to care for children with disabilities

and protect them from being bullied by their classmates. Another problem

found is that the form of education is not conducive to their learning.

Children with intellectual disability are put in the same class with children

with other types of disability. This arrangement is not apt for the learning

of children with intellectual disability as their learning capacity is different

from other children.

39. The Primary Education Office provided information that more than 90

percent of children with disabilities who study in special schools have

completed their education. The information on children with disabilities

studying in normal schools is being collected and not available at the time

the report was being prepared. However, persons with disabilities and

parents of children with disabilities believe that quite a number of children

with disabilities have been unable to complete their education as they

usually have difficulty in learning in many ways. These include the problem

with the school curriculum that does not correspond with their special