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An Australian Bureau of Education for the Handicapped. A present-day imperative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Brian E. Richardson
Brian E. Richardson*
Affiliation:
The Childley Education Centre, Mosman Park, W.A. 6012
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Today there are approximately three million children in Australian schools. Of these 35,268 are in full time special classes or special schools. A further 21,194 are receiving special education help through part-time special classes, while an additional 2,569 are receiving help through consultative visiting teacher services (Table 9, 20, Australian Students and their Schools, 1979). On those figures 1.96 per cent of our school population are receiving special education services. As can be seen from Table 1 the number of children receiving special education varies from .99 percent of the school population in the Australian Capital Territory to 6.02 percent in the Northern Territory.

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Research Article
Information
Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , November 1980 , pp. 22 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1980

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