Education of Students with Visual Impairments in China: An Overview

Abstract

Chinese children and adolescents with visual impairments (VI) receive their education in three education placements: learning in regular classrooms (LRC), special schools, and “teacher-delivered home/communities/child welfare-based instruction” (song jiao shang men). The purposes of this paper are to introduce, summarize, and analyze the policies, implementations, and measures to educate children and adolescents with VI and discuss and conclude the lessons and enlightenment of the experiences to the education for school-age youth with VI in China.