2. Coordinate with day care worker on how to handle a disabled child and what activities can be given so that all the children can participate in. Assist the day care worker in developing these skills. 3. Assist Day Care Worker in encouraging parents of disabled children to participate in Day Care projects/activities. H. Provision of Substitute Family cares services and the facilities therefore for abandoned, neglected, abused and unattached disabled persons who need custodial care. Substitute parental and family care shall be provided by the State to abandoned, neglected, unattached, marginalized disabled persons in residential care facilities. 1. Applicants or referrals from the field shall be assessed by the Social Welfare Development Officer to ensure that the disabled person meets the criteria. The disabled person shall be referred to the nearest available residential care facility where he resides. . 2. The residential care shall provide rehabilitation services with the aim of acquiring skills on self-care, socialization and independent living for eventual re-integration to the community. The local government unit shall make sure that the necessary funds are available for the implementation of the above services. RULE VI A. The National Telecommunications Commission shall coordinate with the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas, as far as those TV stations that are members thereof, or to the concerned TV stations as far as those that are not members thereof the implementation of the provision of SECTION 22, CHAPTER 5 of R.A. 7277 B. The TV stations, at its option, may decide as to whether they shall provide a sign language inset or subtitles in its newscast program. C. The TV stations shall have the sole discretion as to the time of the day that they shall provide either a sign language inset or subtitles in their newscast program. D. On special programs covering events of national significance, the TV stations shall likewise have the sole discretion to provide a sign language inset or subtitles in the coverage thereof. E. All TV stations, whether KBP members or not, shall inform the National Telecommunications Commission their willingness to cooperate in the implementation of this noble undertaking through the prescribed form that can be secured from the National Telecommunications Commission Office. F. The National Telecommunications Commission, through its regulatory power over the broadcast media, shall encourage all TV stations to provide a sign language inset or subtitles in at least one (1) newscast program a day and special programs covering events of national significance. It shall also encourage all radio and television stations and national dailies to allot a percentage of free air time/space for information dissemination on disability and its prevention. The NCWDP in coordination with other agencies shall develop key messages for this purpose and monitor the same. G. The National Telecommunications Commission shall coordinate with the telephone operators all over the country, the implementation of the provision of SECTION 23, CHAPTER 5 of RA No. 7277 H. All telephone operators in the country upon request of the agencies/institutions concerned with the welfare of disabled persons shall provide type approved special telephone devices and improvisations for the hearing-impaired or handicapped persons at the offices of the said agencies or institutions. I. The National Telecommunications Commissions through its regulatory power of the telephone operators shall encourage the said operators to put up telephone devices, services and improvisations for the disabled persons to enable them to communicate through the telephone system. J. For purposes of the provision of SECTION 24, CHAPTER 5 of RA No. 7277, the words “postal charges― whether the same is ordinary or special. Provided, that the articles, parcels, and/or packages are for personal uses or purposes only. K. The following articles, parcels and/or packages free of postal charges are as follows, inclusive: a) articles and literatures like books and periodical, orthopedics and other devices, and teaching aids for the use of the disabled persons sent by mail within the Philippines and abroad; and

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