Early detection and timely intervention measures will help preschool children with impairment develop their ability to the full and make it easier for them to integrate, experts agreed at a seminar in Hanoi.
Speaking at the July 25 seminar, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Thi Nghia said Vietnam’s education development strategy for 2011-2020 has set the target of having 70 percent of children with disabilities attend school by 2020.
According to the deputy minister, before the children enter the official education system, kindergartens offer the best integration environment for them, particularly disabled ones. The early detection of difficulties facing children will help define necessary support measures, thus ensuring the children’s right.
Deputy minister Nghia said the Ministry of Education and Training has instructed several localities to set up the model of early intervention which help detect and assess disabilities and offer individual intervention service for children.
However, the number of such models was small with most located in big cities. Their operation also has limited effects, due to a lack of tools in early detection, limited knowledge of both parents and teachers, plus asynchronous coordination between schools, health sector and families.
Participants agreed on the need to build a set of tools for early detection to help define difficulties facing the unlucky children and provide timely assistance to them.
The job requires the active assistance of localities, branches and agencies, especially international experts and non-governmental organisations, they added.
The seminar was jointly held by the Ministry of Education and Training and the United Nations Children’s Fund.-VNA
Speaking at the July 25 seminar, Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Thi Nghia said Vietnam’s education development strategy for 2011-2020 has set the target of having 70 percent of children with disabilities attend school by 2020.
According to the deputy minister, before the children enter the official education system, kindergartens offer the best integration environment for them, particularly disabled ones. The early detection of difficulties facing children will help define necessary support measures, thus ensuring the children’s right.
Deputy minister Nghia said the Ministry of Education and Training has instructed several localities to set up the model of early intervention which help detect and assess disabilities and offer individual intervention service for children.
However, the number of such models was small with most located in big cities. Their operation also has limited effects, due to a lack of tools in early detection, limited knowledge of both parents and teachers, plus asynchronous coordination between schools, health sector and families.
Participants agreed on the need to build a set of tools for early detection to help define difficulties facing the unlucky children and provide timely assistance to them.
The job requires the active assistance of localities, branches and agencies, especially international experts and non-governmental organisations, they added.
The seminar was jointly held by the Ministry of Education and Training and the United Nations Children’s Fund.-VNA
