Special schools mainly recruit disabled children, including seven categories of children with intellectual disability, mental disability, hearing disability, visual disability, speech disability, physical disability and multiple disabilities. These children are physically or psychologically abnormal and have lost all or part of their ability to receive education in a normal way.

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.

Admission and roll management of special education schools

Ninth special education schools recruit school-age disabled children and adolescents who are suitable for school study to receive compulsory education. The enrollment scope shall be determined by the competent administrative department of education. School starts in autumn.

Schools should make necessary understanding and evaluation of the types, causes, degrees and physical and mental development of disabled children and adolescents.

Tenth special education schools should determine the class size according to the principle of being conducive to education and teaching and students' mental health.

Eleventh special education schools for students who can not continue their studies due to illness (must have a certificate from a medical unit at or above the county level), after approval by the competent administrative department of education, allow them to drop out of school. If you have been out of school for more than three months, the school can enroll in the corresponding grade according to its actual situation and after soliciting the opinions of yourself, their parents or other guardians.

Twelfth special education schools should accept disabled children and adolescents who are not suitable to continue their studies in ordinary schools and apply for transfer with the approval of the administrative department of education, and incorporate them into the corresponding grades according to their actual conditions.

Schools shall timely and properly resettle disabled children and adolescents who apply for change of household registration and are approved by the competent education administrative department, and shall not refuse.

Disabled children and juvenile schools that apply for schooling outside the scope of enrollment may be allowed to borrow students with the approval of the competent education administrative department, and may charge borrowing fees in accordance with relevant regulations.

Thirteenth special education schools shall issue graduation certificates to those who have completed the prescribed courses and passed the grades, and certificates of completion to those who have failed; For those who have completed compulsory education but have not completed the prescribed courses, associate degree certificates will be issued; For those who have not completed compulsory education, academic certificates may be issued as appropriate.

Schools generally do not implement the system of repeating grades.

Fourteenth special education schools may allow students whose academic ability reaches the higher grade level in advance to study in the corresponding grade or to study related courses in the corresponding grade in advance. After examination, students who can attend regular schools should apply to the competent education administrative department for transfer after obtaining the consent of themselves, their parents or other guardians.

Article 15 Special education schools shall commend students with excellent academic performance, give help or criticism and education to students with mistakes, and give warnings, serious warnings and demerits to a very small number of students with serious mistakes. Schools are generally not allowed to expel school-age students in compulsory education.

Sixteenth special education schools should prevent school-age students who have not completed compulsory education from dropping out of school. If they find that a student has dropped out of school, they should immediately report to the competent department and cooperate with the relevant departments to resume their studies according to law.

Seventeenth measures for the administration of special education schools shall be formulated by the provincial education administrative department.