School to boost teaching for autistic kids
By Luo Wangshu | China Daily | Updated: 2016-04-25 09:03
A new training school for teachers and parents of autistic children opened in Beijing on Sunday.
The Tong Yi Shi Jie Education Institute for Autism aims to train 8,000 certified professionals by 2018 as well as provide online training to more than 50,000 people.
No official data on the number of autistic children in China is available. However, a national survey in 2006 by the China Disabled Persons' Federation found that about 111,000 children aged up to 6 had been diagnosed with developmental disorders.
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