Hearing-impaired children still lack boarding schoolTimur Aliyev, North Caucasus - Chechen children with hearing impairments are still unable to be boarded in their special school, stated deputy head Manash Payzulayeva.
"For two years the school has been occupied by the federals so the children have been crowded into another, though smaller, building," Payzulayeva said.
The problem arose when the school, located in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny, was taken over as a command post during military operations and has not yet been given back. "We have to teach in a building that hasn't been properly adapted for our lessons," she explained.
At present there are 383 children with hearing impairments registered in Chechnya, of which only 75 are being taught by the staff of this boarding house.
Unfortunately, this place is not large enough to accommodate all the children. Therefore, only 30 are able to be boarded here; the remaining 45, who are less handicapped, live at home and are day students, she added.
However, education will soon suffer another blow. "In two months we must leave this building as well," Payzulayeva stated sadly.
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