Few disabled get proper education

Few disabled get proper education

JAKARTA: An official has said that only 48,022 children, or 3.7 percent, of the total number of children with disabilities had received a proper education.

Director of Special Needs Nashicin said the small number of disabled children who received an education was because of their parents' low understanding about the importance of a proper education.

He, therefore, asked parents whose children were disabled to send them to school, saying that the government would provide scholarships.

Nashicin revealed that there were 1,094 schools for the disabled throughout the country. Only 44 of them were government- run.

The schools are divided into three categories, A for blind children, B for deaf and dumb children, and C for retarded children. - Antara