Interviewee: Zhou Ye, Principal of Beijing Dongcheng District Special Education School and sign language interpreter for the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China

To meet the special educational needs of children with disabilities, we should adopt special instruction methods and teaching techniques. For example, we teach and communicate with students with hearing impairments in sign language.

When it comes to children with mental handicaps, we adopt teaching materials that are diversified, visual, vivid and close to life, in order to help them better adapt to life in society. Also, teachers customize a learning plan for every mentally handicapped child.

Teaching is not confined to classrooms. Teachers also use everyday life situations to help children learn. We believe this spontaneous and flexible way of teaching is particularly well suited to the children we work with.