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Special
Education
The Chinese government
has all along paid great attention to special education. With the
initiation of the reform and opening policies in 1978, China’s special
education entered a new development period. The state has issued a
series of laws and regulations which make explicit stipulations on
safeguarding the rights to education of the disabled, formulated a
series of both general and specific policies for reforming and developing
the sphere of special education, while earmarking special funds for
this purpose. According to statistics, China has 1,426 special education
schools for blind, deaf and mentally retarded children and teenagers,
and some 5,400 special education classes attached to ordinary middle
schools, with a total of 320,000 students. In addition, a large number
of disabled children and teenagers study in ordinary schools. Currently,
more than 1,700 rehabilitation institutions for deaf infants are operating
in China, and over 70,000 children have been or are being trained
there. Furthermore, there are more than 1,000 vocational training
institutions for the disabled in China. |
