Disabled students in Tibet benefit from special education

15:08, November 05, 2009

A disabled student displays her works including Tibetan-style masks, bags, and Tibetan costumes after one-year vocational training, on a playground in the Special School of Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Nov. 2, 2009. (Lhasa Evening Newspaper Photo)

Nov. 2, 2009, marked the first anniversary of the opening of the vocational training courses by the Lhasa Special School for disabled students in Tibet Autonomous Region.

Qamba, dean of the school's Teaching Department, said that the disable students find it harder for them to hunt jobs than their able-bodied schoolmates. Furthermore, they are slower to adapt to the ever-changing job market.

Vocational education for those handicapped students is intended to help them master some professional skills so as to be self-supporting, he added.

The training involving 104 students and six experienced teachers covers such subjects as the blind-man massage, tailoring, sewing, housing painting, cooking and hairdressing.

Source: Xinhuanet