At an altitude of 4500 meters above sea level on the northern Tibetan Plateau there is a special school – Nachyu Special Education School. Although the children here have some or the other special disability, under the careful care and patient education of the teachers in the school, they become talented and able to change their lives. Nachyu Special Education School established in the year 2013, which is the first special education school established in the grassland of northern Tibet, and a special school providing nine years of compulsory education for children with disabilities such as visual impairment, deafness, mental retardation etc. Is. There are great difficulties in providing special education. Some children have little self-care ability and cannot adapt to unfamiliar environment. Teachers have to teach them to eat food and wear clothes. Even in day-to-day life, teachers play the role of their parents, feed them, bathe them and wash their clothes.
Kuru Nachyu, 27, is an art teacher at a special education school. He was born in Sagaya County, Shikaze City, Tibet Autonomous Region, so far he has 4 years of school teaching experience. Because his left leg is disabled from birth, it is difficult for him to walk. The teacher understands the difficulties of the children of Kuru school. In the year 2019, she became a teacher in this school. She said participating in special education work has always been her ideal. Drawing allows children to better represent their inner world. The imaginative picture creations of the students often take them by surprise.
At the same time, Tsering Lamu, Principal of Nachyu Special Education School, is a delegate to the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party to be held in October 2022. He is completely dedicated to special education. He himself learned sign language in order to communicate with students with language barriers. To enter into the hearts of visually impaired students, he put on his blindfold to experience the world with the students. She also takes students with disabilities to see doctors in hospitals outside Tibet. Tsering Lamu said that the school has changed tremendously in the last 10 years since its inception. Parents were skeptical in the past but are now grateful for schooling and national policies. The students were introverted when entering the school, but after attending the school, they became more and more lively and cheerful. Earlier teachers had to find students to attend the school, but now parents themselves bring their children to get admission in the school.
According to Tsering Lamu, the number and types of students currently enrolled in Nachyu Special Education Schools are increasing, and more and more parents are beginning to value special education. Many children in the school have mastered skills, got jobs, got a new life and realized their own life value. According to statistics from the Tibet Autonomous Region Disabled People’s Association, there are 1,057 students with disabilities enrolled in 7 special education schools in the autonomous region in 2022. 4,597 students with disabilities are enrolled in regular classes in regular schools, and 2,600 students with disabilities are receiving home-schooling services. The enrollment rate of students with disabilities in compulsory education remains above 97 percent. At the same time, according to the data provided by the Employment Service Center for the Disabled in the Tibet Autonomous Region, so far 19,217 disabled people with employment certificates in the age group of 16 to 59 have been employed in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
(Credits- China Media Group, Beijing)
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