Special education schools are compulsory education institutions for disabled children and adolescents organized by the government, enterprises and institutions, social organizations, other social organizations and individual citizens according to law.

A disabled person refers to a person who has lost all or part of his ability to engage in certain activities in a normal way in psychology, physiology and human structure or some organizations and functions are abnormal. Disabled people include visual disability, hearing disability, speech disability, physical disability, intellectual disability, mental disability and multiple disabilities.

The educational system of special education schools is generally nine years. The basic teaching language of special education schools is Chinese. Schools should promote the use of putonghua and standardized characters commonly used throughout the country, as well as Braille and sign language promoted by the state. Special education schools implement the principal responsibility system, and the principal is fully responsible for the teaching and other administrative work of the school.

Off-campus training institutions mainly include some art training institutions. Programming training institutions, calligraphy training institutions, and other musical instrument training institutions, etc.