to undergo the same education as in the national education mainstream schools,
schools for young deaf (EJS) and centres for people with respiratory failure (CIR).
249.Hence, for this segment of population, specialist teachers (trained by the national
training centre for disabled support staff), as well as psychologists and special
educators monitor children based on the national education programme transcribed in
Braille.
250.The Mission of Schools for the Youth Deaf (EJS) hosts children with hearing
impairment or deaf aged 05-16 years to undergo a mainstream education, similar to
that of the national education. These schools are governed by Decree No. 80-59 of 8
March 1980 on the establishment, organization and operation of child guidance
centres and specialist education centres for children with disabilities. Like the EJA,
the EJS feature special teachers, psychologists, educators and special educators who
provide care based primarily on the national education programme with suitable
teaching methods.
251.According to national associations dealing with children, disabled children
experience difficulties integrating into mainstream schools after they leave these
centres. The reason being the lack of resources in schools to facilitate such integration
(adapted classrooms, adapted equipment, writing aid, adapted schedule during
exams).
252.Strengthening systems of special needs education and integration: In addition
to the state allowances granted to poor families with one or more disabled children,
and along with the above mentioned institutional schemes, through the joint efforts of
the department in charge of national solidarity and the education national, there is a
teaching scheme in mainstream teaching through national education for the benefit of
sensory impaired children.
253. The operation launched in the wilaya of Algiers in the early 1990s was expanded
throughout the country from 1998 under the decree dated 10 December 1998, on the
opening of special classes for sensory impaired children in schools under the national
Education.
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For the school year 2013/2014, it is recorded a number of 1676 children with
disabilities mainstreamed in the national education were 1676, spread over 203
classes in 26 wilayas.
254.Regarding special education for sensory impaired children, considerable effort
was made in the procurement of equipment and teaching and technical means, as
follows:
- Acquisition of a Braille printing house that allowed the transcription of Braille
textbooks for all subjects taught;
- Setting up of 18 full and digital sound libraries and 25,000 sound books. The cost of
the operation is 147,263,795.00 AD;
- Setting up of 18 cyber space for the blind at all schools of blind children;
- Provision of digital equipment and acquisition of amplification equipment SUVAG
for all hearing impaired children of the Schools for the Young Deaf.
255.This support to schooling enabled the full integration of 231 visually impaired
and 341 hearing impaired and a partial integration of 24 visually impaired and 437
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