(VOVworld) – For disabled children, special education and care is an essential need. A special school may not be spacious, but it will become their second homes and families, helping unfortunate children to gain knowledge and skills as well as self-confidence in order to integrate better into the community. Today VOV’s My Dung will take you on a tour of three special schools in Ho Chi Minh City.
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| Special education and care is an essential need for disabled children. (Photo:doanthanhnien.vn) |
We visited the Future School at the beginning of April. It is located in a small alley off Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street, District 3. The semi-boarding school now has 40 handicapped children, including autistic, from ages 6 to 16. Most of them have a problem with language. Do Thi Phuong Nga is the principal of Future School: “Most of students here have difficulties with language and life skills. So I attach great importance to improving their life skills and developing their language skills as much as possible”.
Phan Thi Thu Huong, who has worked in the school for a many years, is also interested in teaching life skills to students: “These children are very unfortunate. I approach them with my heart and try to develop suitable learning programs for them. Teaching them is very difficult because of the gaps between school and family. So, I always recommend families help students review what I taught during the day, so that the day after we can receive the students’ feedback from home about the lessons”.
We continue, moving on to the Hope 1 Hearing Disability School in District 1. Although the school lacks material facilities, all the teachers do their best to create the best educational environment for their students. The school has some aptitude and vocational training classes, such as painting, embroidering, IT, and fine arts handicrafts, with the hope that the students will be able to earn their living in the future. The Hope 1 has strict requirements for recruiting teachers. Tran Thi Ngoi is the head of the Hope 1: “Before we allow new teachers to take a class and present the lesson successfully, we put them on training courses, instructing them in the way to teach deaf children”.
The Bung Sang (Glow) Blind Center is in an alley off Nguyen Tri Phuong Street, District 10. It has been established for 29 years to teach and care for the blind. About 30 blind students have been sponsored by the center, most of them from difficult backgrounds. Every morning, the center’s Sisters lead children to Nguyen Dinh Chieu School, a special school for the handicapped, and pick up them in the afternoon for after-class help and to feed them. When the children go to school, the Sisters plait beads together and make fine arts and sell them to earn more money to help provide meals for the children. Although not blind themselves, the Sisters all want to learn Braille to be closer to their children. Sister Nguyen Thi Hoang is the head of the center: “By learning Braille, we better understand what they need and become closer to them. When accompanied by us, the children’s study seems to become easier”.
The Sisters opened some aptitude classes to help with their comprehensive development. Teachers in these classes are also blind. They come here not only to teach, but to encourage, share, and give moral support to those who have the same condition.
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Special schools will give a great moral support for the handicapped.
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On the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on April 18th, we hope that there will be more and more special schools because they are a great moral support for the handicapped. These schools will help to equip them with knowledge and skills to help them become more independent in society.