Persistence gives disabled a voice

Special school founded by the parents of hearing-impaired twins is helping other families. Xue Yanwen reports for Xinhua.

Thanks to their parents' persistence, twin brothers Xu Jian and Xu Kang are embarking on careers as special education teachers after graduating from college.

Xu Zhihong and Zhou Xihua were ecstatic when they welcomed the twins into the world in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Sept 7, 1994, naming them Jian and Kang, the Chinese characters for healthiness.