During the Spring Festival, Ye Shenghai, the principal of Yueqing Special Education School, was not idle at all. The special education school (the second campus) located in Yandang Town, Yueqing City is working hard to finish the final work, and will welcome a new batch of special students this autumn. At that time, the 120 special education degrees newly added by the school will draw a "stop sign" for the plight of disabled children and adolescents in 8 villages and towns in the north of Yueqing.

Education fairness can not be bypassed by the foundation project of special education. Last year, Yueqing took the lead in setting up a "military order", proposing that by 2025, the city will achieve 15 years of free education for licensed disabled children and adolescents from preschool to senior high school, and the enrollment rate of school-age disabled children and adolescents in 15 years of basic education will exceed 95%.

From special fund support to deep cultivation of special education mode, to innovative integrated school running, Yueqing special education has forged a sword for more than 10 years, and issued a sonorous and powerful "Yueqing voice" on the road of education fairness.

Classified placement, everyone can read

Ye Shenghai, who has been engaged in special education for 15 years, witnessed the transformation of special education in Yueqing. Ye Shenghai recalled that in the early days of the school, there were only sixty or seventy students. Last year, considering the real needs of parents, the school decided to open an additional class on the basis of two classes per grade from preschool to high school.

According to the learning situation of local special students, Yueqing City has set up a four level resettlement model of special education schools, satellite classes, resource classrooms and regular schools. Students with mild disabilities are enrolled in regular primary and secondary schools, students with moderate and severe disabilities are enrolled in special education schools, and students with extremely severe disabilities are sent to their homes.

Last year, Yueqing City invested 57 million yuan in the reconstruction and expansion of special education schools, increasing the supply of 300 degrees. In the face of the recognition of parents and the society, Ye Shenghai sighed that the special education can gain the trust of parents, which can not be separated from the local government's dual approach in hardware and software.

In Yueqing, the per student public funds for special students are allocated at 15 times the standard for ordinary students. Free education is extended to 15 years. Schools with more than 5 students in regular classes have resource classrooms and full-time and part-time resource teachers. At present, 64 resource classrooms have been built in Yueqing.

In recent years, Ye Shenghai found that the source structure of special students has changed greatly. "More and more students suffer from autism, and curriculum content and teaching mode need to be adjusted accordingly.". Last year, Yueqing City won a special incentive fund of 10 million yuan for special education schools to promote research on autism education. The school has also become the first group of autism brain research and practice bases in the province. At the same time, in order to cultivate a high-level team of special teachers, the school invests no less than 15% of the public funds every year to support teachers to carry out teaching and research activities.

A series of practical and favorable policies have enabled special education to move from behind the scenes to in front of the stage. "Special education is a foundation project, and every Yueqing child should enjoy fair and high-quality education," said Chen Qingdong, director of Yueqing Municipal Education Bureau.

At present, there are 1216 disabled students with certificates aged 3-17 years in Yueqing, including 90.74% of preschool special children, 99.37% of compulsory education, 87.69% of senior high school students, and 7.67% of home visiting students. In Yueqing, everyone is suitable for placement, and the enrollment policy of classified placement is taking root.

Pute integration, everyone reads good books

"The child in the satellite class got full marks in English!" Lu Changhui, the head teacher of the satellite class in Lecheng No. 2 Primary School, still remembers what her colleague and English teacher Gu Xianmei looked like when she shared the news. This surprise also made Lu Changhui more convinced that "if we find the right way to treat special students, we can also achieve results".

Satellite class is one of the ways that Yueqing City places special students. It refers to the class attached to ordinary schools by special education schools, which mainly places special students with moderate mental retardation in the school district. In 2021, Lu Changhui, a teacher of Yueqing Special Education School, was sent to Lecheng No. 2 Primary School as the head teacher of the satellite class of the school.

As a "shadow teacher", she spent most of her time on special students in the research school: attending classes, observing students' classroom performance, and working with teachers in ordinary schools to develop personalized counseling programs... Gu Xianmei admitted that the arrival of special education teachers gave our teachers a "reassurance", "Special education teachers can not only accurately feel the learning situation of special students, but also provide professional teaching guidance. With them, we will not panic.".

The successful satellite class of No. 2 Primary School is not an exception. At present, there are 5 satellite classes in Yueqing, distributed in Lecheng No. 2 Primary School, No. 6 Primary School in Dajing Town, No. 5 Primary School in Liushi Town, Economic Development Zone School and Yandangshan Tourism School. These schools, combined with their own resource advantages, outline a new picture of the integrated growth of Pute students. For example, the six small satellite classes in Dajing use local resources to carry out labor project based learning activities to improve the viability and social adaptability of special students; Liushi No.5 Small Satellite Class launched the "Wednesday Partner Day" integrated class to enhance the sense of participation of special students in the class; The basic discipline research of Lecheng No. 2 Small Satellite Class enables special students to get the care of integration partners in their study and life.

Unlike the satellite class's fixed-point "garrison", there is also a mobile special teaching team - itinerant instructors in Yueqing. They often appear in schools. Through cooperation with teachers in ordinary schools, regular student research and judgment meetings are held, appropriate learning goals are formulated, rehabilitation training is carried out, etc., to help more children and adolescents with moderate mental retardation integrate into the study and life of ordinary schools.

There are 14 itinerant instructors in Yueqing City, some of whom are from ordinary schools and some from special education schools. Zhou Jiejing, who has been rooted in the field of special education for 25 years, is the leader of this team. In her opinion, a team of tutors with Pute integration can implant the "gene" of integration in the educational concept, and "teachers will also more consciously guide in the way of integration".

In addition, integrated education has been incorporated into the induction training of new teachers. New teachers enter special education schools, observe integrated education classes, and carry out special education general training. Through integrated education, 12 special students in Yueqing have successfully transferred their titles to regular schools.

Employment incubation, everyone has a way out

In the garden of Yueqing Special Education School, a group of disabled people are orderly assembling product accessories. This is also the "occupational therapy workshop" of the first batch of "occupational therapy homes for the disabled" in Yueqing. Most of the employees recruited here come from special education schools. "All the employees here are paid social security and wages by the company".

Chen Xiuxiu, 25, is an "old man" in the workshop. In addition to completing her own work, she is also a teacher's right-hand man. Her daily work makes her feel very fulfilled, and this job gives her the confidence to "support herself".

Ye Shenghai introduced that the school's garden art park is equivalent to a disabled employment incubation base integrating learning experience, job practice and employment training. The school has set up professional courses such as electronic assembly, car washing service and Dendrobium cultivation in combination with the local characteristic industries of Yueqing, aiming to pave the way for students' employment in advance.

After graduation, special students can smoothly integrate into the society and find jobs with high adaptability, thanks to the 15 year integrated school running mode that Yueqing City adheres to, that is, the original 9-year compulsory education is extended to preschool education and high school vocational education respectively, maximizing the educational role of special education schools in "early intervention" and "later vocational training".

In recent years, the number of students with severe and multiple disabilities has increased, and these students are still difficult to integrate into the society after graduation. What about these students? In line with the principle of "one cannot be missing", Yueqing City has decided to "add another three years of special vocational training to enable these students to master practical labor skills".

After more than 10 years of exploration and practice, a set of integrated school running mode of "preschool classified rehabilitation training - subject knowledge acquisition in the liberal education section - vocational skills training in the senior high school section - pre employment incubation in the home for the disabled" has taken root, sprouted and grown in Yueqing, becoming a "golden card" of local special education.

According to statistics, the employment rate of graduates of Yueqing Special Education School has exceeded 90% for three consecutive years. "Strengthen the inclusive development of special education and build a new pattern of special education in the county based on local conditions." In Chen Qingdong's view, the special education model of Yueqing meets the development needs of the current society, "especially in the context of education and common prosperity, every special needs student has the right to pursue his own life dream".