248. As from the financial year (2016/2017), five scholarships are being offered annually to students with SEN to pursue Post-Secondary/Tertiary courses. These students also benefit from a stipend of Rs 5,000 monthly (Mauritian students) and Rs 8000 (Rodriguan students). 249. The Ministry of Education, and Human Resources, Tertiary Education and Scientific Research has taken several measures for the inclusion and integration of children with Special Education Needs so as to ensure that no child is deprived of education on account of any form of impairment or disability. 250. These are inter alia – a) a flexible approach is adopted towards parents who wish to call at school during the day to provide assistance to their physically disabled pupils. Parents are strongly encouraged to register their wards in the nearest primary schools. b) schools are being retrofitted with ramps to facilitate access to the classrooms and all new secondary schools constructed have already been provided with adapted toilets for the disabled. Links between building blocks have been made to facilitate access, using wheelchairs to the first floor where specialist rooms are located; c) facilities like music room, library, science laboratory, computer room are available on the ground floor where necessary. In primary schools, Head Masters usually make arrangements to move the whole class to the ground floor wherever necessary d) students with disabilities are released earlier than the other students so that they do not face any movement difficulties; e) school Attendants usually help students on wheelchair to move around the school compound; f) educators are encouraged to provide individual extra assistance to children with disabilities so as to allow them to keep pace with their classmates. children with disabilities benefit from extra time for the CPE examination. Enlarged print school books/manuals and question papers are produced for children suffering from visual impairment; g) A Mauritian Sign Language has been developed to ease communication for children with deafness. Children with hearing impairment are provided with the service of sign language interpreters for the purpose of examinations; h) The Ministry of Education and Human Resources, Tertiary Education and Scientific Research has put up integrated units in government primary schools around the island so as to reach out those who have to travel long distance. There are at present 13 such Integrated Units and the majority of them are run in partnership with specialist NGOs. 109