Ho
Chi Minh City plans to build more schools for students with disabilities during
the 2011-12 school year if funds are available, according to the Department of
Education and Training.
At a workshop held yesterday, Nguyen Thi Van Anh,
deputy head of the department's Preschool Education Office, which specialises
in education for children with disabilities, said the city has 25 schools
reserved for these children.
However, there are seven districts without
schools for children with disabilities. They are located in districts 4, 7, 9,
Binh Tan, Thu Duc, Nha Be, and Hoc Mon.
The city has not been able to build more
schools for these children because of a shortage of funds.
For the 2010-11 school year, the city has 583
schools for students that also admit students with disabilities, an increase of
25 schools over last year.
Many of these schools that enrol only students
with disabilities are unable to receive more students because their facilities
are too small.
In addition, they lack funds to organise other
outdoor activities for their students.
In schools where disabled students learned
with other students, most teachers had no training in teaching such students,
Anh said.
In the training programme of pedagogy
universities, students enrolled in primary education faculties are not taught
topics on teaching disabled students.
The high number of students in each classroom
has also influenced the quality of teaching, she added.
Schools that enrol students with disabilities
exclusively still do not have enough teachers, leading to difficulties in
teaching these students, Anh said.
In a recent workshop, Do Thi Thuy, a teacher
of Hy Vong School for hearing-impaired students, also complained about a
shortage of teachers for her school.
The demand to employ more teachers for these
schools was high while supply was low, Thuy said.
In the last two years, the number of
applicants for the Education for Disabled Children Faculty at the University of
Teachers' Training has fallen.
Many graduates of this faculty later quit
their teaching jobs because of low salaries and work overload, Thuy added.
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