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