弱智儿童的教育,无论是在西方发达国家还是在中国,都已成为国民义务教育体系的组成部分。因此,无论是在受教育权利上,还是在教育目标上,都是与正常儿童一致的。自实行改革开放政策以来,中国的弱智教育事业得到了前所未有的发展。十多年来,中国制订和实施了一系列发展弱智教育的方针政策,摸索出一条切合中国实际的以特殊教育学校为骨干,大量特殊班和随班就读为主体的发展特殊教育的道路,颁布了《全日制弱智学校(班)教学计划》(征求意见稿)和《中度智力残疾学生教育训练纲要》(试行)。到1995年,中国已有弱智学校446所,附设在普通学校的特殊 Education for mentally handicapped children has become an integral part of the system of compulsory education in both developed and western countries. Therefore, both in the right to education and education goals, are consistent with normal children. Since the implementation of the policy of reform and opening up, China’s mentally handicapped education has enjoyed unprecedented development. For more than a decade, China has formulated and implemented a series of guidelines and policies for the development of mentally retarded education, and has come up with a special development education that takes special schools as its backbone, a large number of special classes and regular classes as its mainstay, promulgated and promulgated The “full-time mentally handicapped school (class) teaching plan” (draft) and “mental retardation education and training program” (for trial implementation). By 1995, China had 446 mentally handicapped schools, which were attached to ordinary schools