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Q: How many schools for the people with visual impairments in China?
I am interested to know about Chinese education system for the people with visual impairments.
29 weeks 6 days ago in Teaching & Learning - China
this is not the best site for specific information like this.
you are best searching on Chinese government sites - your own search engine would give you results faster than this site.
there are very few posters on this site now - and many bot accounts.
the answer you were given a few days ago is porbably as good as you are going to get.
https://answers.echinacities.com/question/seeking-special-education-schools-china-hiring-braille-proficient-english-teacher
also keep in mind the Chinese government is unlikely to want to admit that they need schools like this.
just saying ![]()
this is not the best site for specific information like this.
you are best searching on Chinese government sites - your own search engine would give you results faster than this site.
there are very few posters on this site now - and many bot accounts.
the answer you were given a few days ago is porbably as good as you are going to get.
https://answers.echinacities.com/question/seeking-special-education-schools-china-hiring-braille-proficient-english-teacher
also keep in mind the Chinese government is unlikely to want to admit that they need schools like this.
just saying ![]()
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_education_in_China
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Few educational institutions serve special needs students. As of 2018, around 1710 institutions specifically serve disabled people, with forty-six thousand teaching staff spread across those institutions.[citation needed] In China, students with disabilities are usually separated from typical classrooms and placed in schools dedicated to special education. The first school dedicated to students with disabilities in China was established in 1987 in the city of Beijing. Currently this school has 60 staff members who teach more than 200 children in 17 classrooms. The school provides professional development and resource centers and an intensive diagnostic and training center for 3- and 4-year-olds with autism, as well as special education classes for school-age children". The school is described as being very academic however the students are involved in active activities and plenty of one on one time with their instructors. The school also recruits students from all around China due to the scarcity of special education schools across the country.[5] Segregation in education is what is typically seen within special education in China, however China has begun to adopt the idea of classroom inclusion which has proven to be beneficial in other nations who have adopted the method. Although this strategy is fairly new in China it has already shown positive results "Between 1987 and 1996, the school entrance rate of students with disabilities rose from 6% to 60%, and a large majority of these students were in general education classrooms." Meaning students with special needs are being placed in typical classrooms with specialized instruction being given to students who have varying needs.[6] Special teacher education has seen a large increase in the last decade "Conversations with teacher educators or trainers at Beijing Normal University and East China Normal University indicated that programs to prepare special education teachers are developing rapidly. Several teachers mentioned that rigorous examinations still are the most important determining criteria for accepting teacher candidates to teacher training programs" (Ellsworth and Zhang 63). However, there is still a large gap between the number of students in need and the qualified teachers to provide services. There has also been issues with the universities in China not providing special education programs in their schools, only limited schools in the urban areas provide this line of study, making the qualification for special educators hard to come by.[7]
















