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.
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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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