The enrollment targets of special education schools are disabled children and adolescents who are difficult to adapt to ordinary primary and secondary schools.

Among them, schools for the blind recruit students for the whole province, schools for the deaf recruit students for the whole city, and schools for the mentally retarded in urban areas recruit school-age children and adolescents with mental retardation in this region in principle. The age at which disabled children enter primary schools is generally the same as that of ordinary primary school-age children, and may be appropriately relaxed under special circumstances, but it shall not exceed 10.

For students over the age of admission, the study period can be shortened by shifting classes or arranging classes separately. The capacity of schools for the blind and deaf shall not exceed 12 students in principle; The class capacity of a school with mental retardation shall not exceed 8 students in principle. School-age disabled children and adolescents need to go through the admission formalities at the relevant schools at the specified time and place with their household registration books or ID cards and disability certificates. Students with special physique submit written instructions. Junior high school students in non-primary schools and grade one need to show their grades and identify the original school. School-age disabled children and adolescents who need boarding study must provide the school with medical certificates for general physical examination (including liver function examination) in hospitals at or above the county level in this city after May of that year.

In addition, ordinary primary and secondary schools should recruit school-age disabled children and adolescents who can adapt to the study of ordinary classes in primary and secondary schools in accordance with the requirements of relevant state regulations, and provide them with help according to their special needs in learning and rehabilitation. Conditional schools can also set up special counseling classrooms. Disabled children and adolescents attending ordinary primary and secondary schools in regular classes are guaranteed to complete nine-year compulsory education by the school. Therefore, according to the above knowledge, not everyone can attend special education schools, and only those who meet the relevant conditions can attend special education schools. Special education is also a kind of care for special children in China. The "Interim Measures" stipulates that the access conditions for special education in every place in China are formulated by the local government itself, and there is no uniform provision in the whole country.