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What is the purpose of special education?
The goal of special education is to help children with special education gradually adapt to the least restrictive environment, so that they can participate in learning activities in ordinary schools as much as possible with normal children, thus achieving the goal of adapting to normal life. Disabled people feel extremely lucky, grateful and uneasy from seeking help to living in social care.

Developing special education is an important content to promote educational equity and realize educational modernization, an important measure to adhere to people-oriented and carry forward the humanitarian spirit, and an important task to safeguard and improve people's livelihood and build a harmonious socialist society. The popularization level of compulsory education for disabled children and adolescents has been significantly improved, and the scale of running special education in non-compulsory education has been expanding.

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Main measures:

1, multi-channel, multi-level and multi-form vocational education and training for the disabled. General vocational education and training institutions continue to play a major role in vocational education and training for the disabled and gradually form a vocational education network for the disabled; Vocational education and training institutions for the disabled should carry out vocational education and training according to the special needs of the disabled.

2. Strengthen secondary vocational education for the disabled. Ordinary secondary vocational education institutions actively recruit students with disabilities, giving priority to admission under the same conditions.

3. Develop higher vocational education for the disabled. Ordinary higher vocational education institutions continue to recruit all kinds of disabled candidates who meet the admission criteria; Encourage institutions of higher learning to hold majors or classes to recruit disabled students; Make full use of social forces and international assistance to rationally lay out and develop characteristic higher vocational education.

4. Make full use of distance education. Conditional schools for the disabled can use network and multimedia technology to carry out teaching practice activities and realize resource sharing.

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