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The Decision to Reform the Education System
The Chinese Political Council established The Decision to Reform the Education System, “which explicitly required governments at all levels to establish schools for individuals with visual and hearing impairments and to provide education for children, adolescents, and adults with physical disabilities. This document, for the first time in Chinese education history, included special education in the formal public education system and advocated the legislation for special teacher education -
Newly revised constitution of China
This stated China's responsibility for educating people
with disabilities and was the first legal mandate for the provision of special education in China -
Compulsory Education Law of the People’s Republic of China
The National People’s Congress adopted the Compulsory
Education Law of the People’s Republic of China, mandating that all children are entitled to nine years of free public education— six years of elementary education and three years of
secondary school education.. Special schools were organized for children with visual, hearing and
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Beijing opens first school dedicated to students with disabilities
The first school dedicated to students with disabilities in China was established in 1987 in the city of Beijing. The school provides professional development and resource centres and an intensive diagnostic and training centre for 3- and 4-year-olds with autism, as well as special education classes for school-age children -
The Law on the Protection of the Disabled Persons
This law emphasized that families, work units and community organizations must share the responsibility for caring for individuals
with disabilities -
Learning in the Regular Classroom Initiative
This movement gained popularity in the early 1990s with use of mainstream schooling to serve students with disabilities growing astronomically. In 1990, there were 105,000 students with disabilities in school and about 18% of them were placed in
general education classrooms. In 2003, LRC programs served approximately 67% of all students identified with disabilities in regular schools (Deng & Harris, 2008). -
Ordinance of Educations for Persons with Disabilities
This strengthened the 1990 Law on the Protection of the Disabled Persons by requiring a qualification certificate system for the special education teacher -
The Education Law of the People’s Republic of China
Along with the Teachers’ Law of the People’s Republic of China called for offering further educational resources and places for students with disabilities -
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
China signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2007, and ratified it in 2008. However, China made no reservations, understandings, or declarations when it did so. -
China recognises 6 classes of disability
China is attempting to do much more, compared to their past history, in the way of educating children with disabilities. China recognizes six classes of disability: visual, hearing, intellectual, physical,
psychiatric and multiple impairments -
Regulations on Education for Persons with Disabilities
The regulations have, for the first time, made the promotion of inclusive education a key principle, signalling a policy shift away from a category-based approach (rural–urban, migrant–native, students with or without disabilities) and toward a more unified set of recommendations and guidelines