Special attention for disabled children

By Harsihini PERERA

Children with special needs should be treated equally in schools as there were a percentage of children in Sri Lanka in this category.

Among these 20 per cent of the children were in the special need category while two per cent were in the severe need category. Some children needed to improve their hearing and needed attention but principals of schools had a prejudice in admitting them, Director of Special Education, Ministry of Education, H. P. N. Lakshman said.

He was addressing a 'seminar on special education needs of children' organised in collaboration with Wickramarachchi Opticians for 200 teachers and trainees of special education on Friday at Nugegoda.

He said detection and treatment of special needs among schoolchildren are necessary to ensure unimpaired education for them and modules had to be made for them in the system of education.