1. Better grades: mentally retarded children may not be able to keep up with their grades in ordinary schools.
2. Avoid psychological stress: Children with mental retardation may be ridiculed and discriminated against by other children, or even teased by other children, which will cause psychological stress to children and seriously lead to social fear and autism.
Special school
A special education school is a compulsory education institution organized by the government, enterprises, institutions, social organizations, other social organizations and individual citizens according to law, which is specially implemented for disabled children and adolescents. On July 5, 2023, the website of the Ministry of Education released the statistical bulletin of national education development in 2022. 23 14 national special education schools; Various forms of special education enrollment146.3 million; There are 72,700 full-time teachers in special education.
Special needs education
Special education is to educate children with special needs with universal or specially designed courses, textbooks, teaching methods, teaching organization forms and teaching equipment, so as to achieve universal and special training goals.
The purpose and task of special education is to meet the requirements of society and the educational needs of special children to the greatest extent. Develop their potential, make them increase their knowledge, acquire skills, improve their personality, enhance their social adaptability and become useful talents to society.
the disabled
A disabled person refers to a person who has lost all or part of his ability to engage in certain activities in a normal way in psychology, physiology and human structure or some organizations and functions are abnormal.
Disabled people include visual disability, hearing disability, speech disability, physical disability, intellectual disability, mental disability and multiple disabilities.
statistical data
There are 23 14 special education schools in China, an increase of 26 over the previous year, with an increase of 1. 14%. All kinds of special education enrollment146.3 million, a decrease of 2805 over the previous year; There are 918,500 students in school, a decrease of 1265 students or 0. 14% compared with the previous year. Among them, there are 335,700 students in special education schools, accounting for 36.54% of the students in special education. There are 72,700 full-time teachers in special education.