YEREVAN, DECEMBER 3, NOYAN TAPAN. Although many laws on problems of the disabled have been adopted in Armenia and the amount of budgetary allocations for solution of these problems is increasing year by year, modern public perception of disability has not yet formed in Armenia, the Armenian prime minister Serge Sargsian expressed this opinion during the December 3 visit to special school No 15 for children with hearing disorders. He pointed out that a lot of depends on nearly 300 NGOs that deal with this problems. NGO representatives said that there were previously several enterprises, at which deaf persons used to work but these enterprises are not operating now due to high taxes. The problem of employment of the disabled has not yet received a legislative solution. According to NGOs, 3,500 deaf persons currently live in Armenia, about 70 million - in the world. In the words of the school headmaster Ashot Avetisian, 300 pupils have graduated from their school which started functioning in 1960. The graduates of recent years already work as carpet makers, tailors, hairdressers, etc. - jobs they have learnt at school.

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