Regulations on Education for the Disabled (revised on 20 17)

Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 These Regulations are formulated in accordance with the Education Law of the People's Republic of China and the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Disabled Persons for the purpose of safeguarding the right of disabled persons to receive education and developing education for disabled persons. Article 2 The State guarantees the equal right of disabled persons to receive education, and prohibits educational discrimination based on disability.

Education for the disabled should implement the national education policy, comprehensively improve the quality of the disabled according to their physical and mental characteristics and needs, and create conditions for them to participate in social life on an equal footing. Article 3 Education for the disabled is an integral part of national education.

Develop education for the disabled, implement the principle of combining popularization with improvement and giving priority to popularization, guarantee compulsory education, focus on developing vocational education, actively develop preschool education, and gradually develop education above senior secondary school.

Education for the disabled should improve the quality of education, actively promote integrated education, and adopt general education or special education according to the disability category and acceptance ability of the disabled, with general education as the mainstay. Article 4 The people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the leadership over the education of the disabled, incorporate the education of the disabled into the educational development plan, make overall plans for its implementation, rationally allocate resources, ensure the investment in education of the disabled, and improve the conditions for running schools. Article 5 The education administrative department of the State Council shall be in charge of the national education for the disabled, and make overall planning, coordination and management of the national education for the disabled; Other relevant departments in the State Council shall be responsible for the education of the disabled within the scope of duties stipulated by the State Council.

The education administrative department of the local people's government at or above the county level shall be in charge of the education of the disabled in their respective administrative areas; Other relevant departments of the local people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the education of the disabled within their respective functions and duties. Article 6 The China Disabled Persons' Federation and its local organizations shall actively promote and carry out education for the disabled, assist relevant departments in implementing education for the disabled, and provide support and assistance for the disabled to receive education. Seventh pre-school education institutions, schools at all levels and other educational institutions shall, in accordance with the provisions of these regulations and relevant laws and regulations of the state, implement education for the disabled; Persons with disabilities who meet the conditions prescribed by laws and regulations may not refuse to enter school. Article 8 Families of disabled persons shall help disabled persons receive education.

Parents or other guardians of disabled children and adolescents should respect and protect their right to education, actively carry out family education, enable disabled children and adolescents to receive rehabilitation training and education in time, and assist and participate in the education and teaching activities of relevant educational institutions to provide support for disabled children and adolescents to receive education. Article 9 All sectors of society should care about and support the education of the disabled. The communities where disabled people live, relevant social organizations, enterprises and institutions should support and help disabled people to receive education on an equal footing and integrate into society. Article 10 The State shall commend and reward organizations and individuals that have made outstanding contributions to the education of the disabled in accordance with relevant regulations. Article 11 The institutions responsible for education supervision of the people's governments at or above the county level shall include the implementation of education for the disabled in the scope of supervision, and may conduct special supervision on the implementation of laws and regulations on education for the disabled, the quality of education and teaching for the disabled, and the management and use of funds. Chapter II Compulsory Education Article 12 People's governments at all levels shall perform their duties according to law and guarantee the right of school-age disabled children and adolescents to receive compulsory education.

The people's governments at or above the county level shall supervise, guide and inspect the implementation of compulsory education, including the supervision, guidance and inspection of compulsory education for disabled children and adolescents. Thirteenth parents or other guardians of school-age disabled children and adolescents shall ensure that their disabled children or wards enter school according to law to receive and complete compulsory education. Fourteenth disabled children and adolescents should receive compulsory education at the same age as local children and adolescents. When necessary, the age and length of schooling can be appropriately increased. Article 15 The education administrative department of the people's government at the county level shall, jointly with the health administrative department, the civil affairs department and the Disabled Persons' Federation, conduct pre-school registration for compulsory school-age disabled children and adolescents according to information such as neonatal disease screening, preschool children's disability screening and statistics of disabled persons, so as to fully grasp the number and disability of compulsory school-age disabled children and adolescents within their respective administrative areas. Article 16 People's governments at the county level shall, according to the number, category and distribution of disabled children and adolescents within their administrative areas, make overall plans, give priority to establishing special education resource classrooms in some ordinary schools, equip them with necessary equipment and teachers and professionals specializing in disability education, and designate disabled children and adolescents to receive compulsory education; And support other ordinary schools to set up special education resource classrooms as needed, or arrange schools with corresponding resources and conditions to provide necessary support for other ordinary schools that recruit disabled students.

The people's governments at the county level shall equip special education schools that implement compulsory education with necessary instruments and equipment such as education and teaching, rehabilitation assessment and rehabilitation training for the disabled, and strengthen the construction of special education schools with nine-year compulsory education. Seventeenth school-age disabled children and adolescents who can adapt to the study and life of ordinary schools and receive general education shall receive compulsory education in the nearest ordinary school in accordance with the provisions of the Compulsory Education Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).

School-age disabled children and adolescents can receive general education, but they need special support in their study and life. According to their physical condition, they can receive compulsory education in ordinary schools with corresponding resources and conditions designated by the education administrative department of the people's government at the county level in a certain area.

If school-age disabled children and adolescents cannot receive general education, the education administrative department of the people's government at the county level shall make overall arrangements to enter special education schools to receive compulsory education.

School-age disabled children and adolescents need special care and cannot go to school. The education administrative department of the people's government at the county level shall make overall arrangements to implement compulsory education by providing home school education or distance education, and bring it into the management of student status.