Article: Neglect not people with special needs

Ibrahim Ahmad Bajunid
New Straits Times
07-25-2004
Neglect not people with special needs
Byline: Ibrahim Ahmad Bajunid
Edition: 2*
Column: As I wonder

OUR commitment towards those with special needs is the measure of our humanity. Are we doing enough?

DURING a national educational seminar in the 1970s, a participant put forward the case that more resources should be allocated to provide facilities for the physically, intellectually and socio- culturally disadvantaged.
Another participant countered that since resources were scarce, they must be alloted for those who were able so that they could contribute to national development.

The assumption was that the handicapped could not contribute to ...

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