Research On The Current Learning Status Of Primary Students With Disabilities Who Are Placed In Regular School

Learning in regular class is an important way for children with disabilities to receive compulsory education. Their learning status has direct bearing on the quality of education. Their learning status is the basis for the selection of appropriate supportive measures. The study use questionnaires and interviews to investigate the learning status of students with disabilities who now studying in one district in Shanghai.31 students are included in this study. There are 24 students who are intellectually disabled,5 students have hearing impairment,1 student has visual impairment, and 1 student is multiple disabled.Meanwhile the researcher chooses two cases to look into their learning status. The research contents include:the learning attitude,study habit,learning support and academic performance of the primary students placed in regular class. The research findings include:(1) Students with hearing impairment and the student with visual impairment are better adapt to regular school learning in all the subjects. Students with intellectual disability experience great difficulties in learning Chinese,Math and English; (2) The majority of students have not formed a good learning attitude.There are many problems in the learning attitude for students with intellectual disability; (3) The classroom learning habit of students with hearing impairment and students with visual impairment is good. An outstanding question for students with intellectual disability is their class participation habits; the extracurricular learning habits of the students learning in regular school is not fine; (4) The regular schools have provided certain supportive measures,such as the adjustment of curriculum,evaluation,individualize tutorship and so on,to assist the learning of students with disabilities, but it is still not enough to meet their needs; (5) There is a small gap between students with hearing impairment and the class average grade in Chinese.English and Math. For students with visual impairment, it is the same. But there is a big gap between students with intellectual disability and the class average grade. It is difficult to reflect the real performance and progress of students with intellectual disability.So it is advisable to take the following suggestions:(1) Enhance the direction of learning for these students to help them foster fine learning attitude and habits; (2) Establish the learning support system as soon as possible,and provide them with individualized learning support.