necessary services for people with motor, visual and hearing disabilities through the provision of suitable points of access to enter and exit the halls of the council easily and independently. Disabled members have been also provided with special washrooms and elevators in a way that enables them to exercise their parliamentary role like other MPs. 5. As part of efforts to facilitate the education process for persons with disabilities, the following initiatives have been implemented: A) The establishment of a ‘special education’ unit within the administrative structure of the Ministry of Education, which specializes in providing educational services for students with disabilities of various types, and training them to acquire the appropriate skills suited to their abilities in accordance with carefully studied plans and special programs with a view to integrating them fully into society. B) Issuing several decisions to regulate the integration of children with disabilities into public schools and technical education institutes (industrial, agricultural, commercial and hospitality). C) Providing access to all special education schools without any tuition fees, along with free uniforms, free accommodation and subsistence payments for students in some of these schools. D) Implementing a curriculum numbering project with a view to transforming the curricula of persons with disabilities into highly accessible curricula to serve 18,000 students with hearing and visual disabilities, and printing all textbooks for persons with visual disabilities in Braille. E) Establishing specifications for exam papers for special education students in cooperation with UNICEF. Efforts are underway to develop a document of standards for special education curricula (visual, auditory and intellectual). F) Training 12,943 teachers in special education schools during 2015 and 2016 in cooperation with the Professional Academy of Teachers. 76