CRPD/C/PHL/CO/1 disabilities have the legal capacity to exercise their freedom of choice concerning living arrangements; (b) Ensure the involvement of persons with disabilities and their representative organizations at all stages of the development of independent living strategies and schemes; (c) Adopt the measures necessary to ensure that persons with disabilities have a legal entitlement to a sufficient personal budget for independent living, which takes into account the additional costs related to disability, and, at the same time, redirect resources from institutionalization to community-based services, while increasing the availability of personal assistance; (d) Implement community support services, with qualified human resources and adequate budgets, to enable persons with disabilities to make independent decisions on where to live and to be included in the community. Personal mobility (art. 20) 36. The Committee is concerned about the absence of a non-discriminatory and systematic framework with adequate public budgets dedicated to the acquisition of mobility aids and assistive technologies, which are crucial in ensuring the unrestricted personal mobility of persons with disabilities. 37. The Committee recommends that the State party adopt a policy framework, including fixed and sufficient human, technical and financial resources, to ensure that persons with disabilities can acquire quality and affordable mobility aids and assistive devices, technologies and services necessary for their personal mobility. It also recommends that the State party establish targets to provide universal access to appropriate orthopaedic, technological and other assistive devices, as well as appropriate information and training on how to use them. Freedom of expression and opinion, and access to information (art. 21) 38. The Committee is concerned about: (a) The lack of recognition and support of the specific cultural and linguistic identity of persons who are deaf through the promotion of Philippine sign language and deaf culture; (b) disabilities; (c) The lack of Easy Read materials available for persons with intellectual The fact that the bill on Philippine sign language has yet to be adopted. 39. The Committee recommends that the State party adopt amendments to section 22 of Republic Act No. 7277 and other related measures to ensure that persons with hearing impairments are provided with language subtitles in its newscast programme. Education (art. 24) 40. The Committee observes with concern: (a) The prevalence of the special education model, and the lack of measures to provide for inclusive and mainstreamed education for persons with disabilities; (b) The low number of children with disabilities enrolled in elementary schools (only 110,169 pupils with disabilities were enrolled in government elementary schools, according to data relating to the period from 2013 to 2014 from the Department of Education, out of some 5.49 million children with “special needs”, who comprised 13 per cent of the total population of children); (c) The education of children, young persons and adults with disabilities in regular educational facilities is hindered by the barriers to accessibility, and the lack of universal design for learning and of reasonable accommodations in all academic and social aspects of student life; 9