Workshop on mentally disabled

BOGOR, West Java: The Ministry of Education and Culture is seeking ways to educate slightly intellectually-disabled children following treatment which has been given to those who are blind and deaf.

While opening a workshop on teaching students with slight intellectual disabilities here yesterday, minister Wardiman Djojonegoro said the group deserves special attention because the 1989 education law stipulates that every citizen, including those with physical and/or mental disabilities, has an equal right to obtain education.

The minister then noted that in the process of improving the educational system, his ministry has been able to establish some 37,000 centers of special treatment for disabled students.

"Lately we have made significant progress on education for disabled students. To give you an example, you might have noticed that the news on television is now accessible for the deaf," Wardiman said. (11)