Current location:world >>
Across China: Special Education Brightens Life of Children with Disabilities
world425People have gathered around
IntroductionContact Us HomeNewsHighlightACWF NewsSocietyWom ...
- Home
- News
- People
- In-depth
- ACWF
Across China: Special Education Brightens Life of Children with Disabilities
June 28, 2022Students learn calligraphy in Tianshui Special Education School in Tianshui City, northwest China's Gansu Province, May 26, 2022. [Xinhua/Zhang Zhimin] |
LANZHOU, June 25 (Xinhua) — A video clip of Zhang Huiyu, a Chinese girl with visual impairment, passionately reciting "Ode to the Yellow River" has recently attracted a flurry of attention online.
The 16-year-old is a seventh-grade student in Tianshui Special Education School in the city of Tianshui in Gansu Province, northwest China. Suffering from congenital cataracts, Zhang confronts grave challenges in learning.
"We didn't know there was a special education school for the blind until Tianshui disabled persons' federation contacted us. We sent her to the school after we visited it," said Zhang's grandfather.
"When I was in an ordinary primary school, I had a hard time with study and I couldn't read the papers clearly in exams. But when I came to the special education school, I even found a teacher who is completely blind, which inspires me to work hard to become a special education teacher in the future," Zhang said.
Opened in 1986, Tianshui Special Education School now has 38 classes and 430 students. The school has departments for intelligence training, hearing impairment and visual impairment as well as a vocational high school.
In the department of intelligence training, students learn life skills, labor habits, and some basic language and math knowledge, while also receiving rehabilitation training.
For the hearing-impaired students, after completing nine years of compulsory education, they can enter the vocational high school and then take the special "gaokao," national college entrance examinations, for hearing-impaired students.
"In the past two years, 57 students from our vocational high school have participated in the special 'gaokao,' and 34 of them have been admitted to colleges and universities," said Dong Wuyan, principal of Tianshui Special Education School.
For the students in the visual impairment department, after receiving nine-year compulsory education, they would either go to high school or integrate into society with their acquired vocational skills.
China's regulation on education for the disabled requires access to nine-year compulsory education for all school-age children and adolescents with disabilities. No schools are allowed to decline their appeal for schooling. The requirement was simplified as "full coverage and zero rejection."
For 61 disabled students who cannot attend school, Tianshui Special Education School offers door-to-door education, arranging teachers to teach them at home.
The school has also been upgrading its facilities. It was newly equipped with a reading room, sensory training room and massage room in recent years. Besides basic courses, the school has also created many clubs, including basketball, Tai Chi and chess.
"From 2016 to 2020, we implemented two special education upgrading plans, setting up special education schools in all counties and districts with a population of more than 300,000," said Shen Jianling, director of the Tianshui municipal education bureau.
By the end of 2020, the enrollment rate of compulsory education for children and adolescents with disabilities in Gansu Province reached 96.81 percent, and there were 44 special education schools for compulsory education.
In January, China's Ministry of Education, together with relevant authorities, released an action plan to boost the development of special needs education, with the aim of reaching a 97 percent enrollment rate for school-age minors with disabilities in compulsory education by 2025.
Zhang Huiyu (R) attends maths class in Tianshui Special Education School in Tianshui City, northwest China's Gansu Province, May 26, 2022. [Xinhua/Zhang Zhimin] |
(Source: Xinhua)
32.3KPlease understand that womenofchina.cn,a non-profit, information-communication website, cannot reach every writer before using articles and images. For copyright issues, please contact us by emailing: [email protected]. The articles published and opinions expressed on this website represent the opinions of writers and are not necessarily shared by womenofchina.cn.
Comments
Magazines
Projects
- 2023 Women Science and Technology Innovation Pioneer...
Photos
- People Enjoy Blooming Tulips in Jinan, East...
- Flowers Bloom Across China in Spring
Special Coverage
Tags:
Reprint:Friends are welcome to share on the Internet, but please indicate the source of the article when reprinting it.“Planet Profile news portal”。http://jersey.triple-v.org/article-71d299885.html
Related articles
Adams, Reyna, Turner, Ream are US concerns ahead of Copa America
worldNEW YORK (AP) — Tyler Adams, Gio Reyna, Matt Turner and Tim Ream will be given the three weeks ahead ...
【world】
Read moreE China hailstorm disaster death toll rises to 7
worldThe death toll resulting from hailstorms and severe convective weather that has been affecting east ...
【world】
Read moreNissan says it will make next
worldYOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Nissan expects to mass produce electric vehicles powered by advanced next-gen ...
【world】
Read more
Popular articles
- With Djokovic awaiting the winner, Murray trails Hanfmann at rain
- New cancer
- CPC to implement Party discipline education campaign
- Chinese courts highlight child protection during divorce trials
- What a blast to work at NASA. Space agency is sky
- Hayao Miyazaki's animated fantasy stays atop Chinese box office
Latest articles
Ben Whishaw lights up the Croisette as he joins his co
Stock market today: Asian shares track Wall Street slump triggered by strong US spending data
Mainland ready to aid disaster relief after Taiwan earthquake: spokesperson
At least 9 dead, 15 missing after migrant boat sinks near Italy
Kosovo prepares a new draft law on renting prison cells to Denmark after the first proposal failed
Chinese railways gear up for travel rush during Qingming festival
LINKS
- Family Does Part to Benefit Society
- Striving for a Better Future
- Seedling Breeder Helps Farmers Attain Wealth by Developing Vegetable Cooperative
- Skilled Craftspeople Turn Decayed Wood into Art
- Pluck and Moxie! Trailblazer Dedicated to Saving Lives During Emergencies
- Activity Deepens Overseas Chinese Students' Understanding of Xi
- Lost in Love Song Melody, Scenery in Kangding
- Libo: 'Emerald on the Earth's Belt'
- Family Farms Inject Vitality into Agriculture
- Shouguang: 'China's Hometown of Vegetables'