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The Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment Education Practices in a Kindergarten

Drawing on the successful experience of the Sign Bilingualism and Co-enrolment Education Programme of the Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, our kindergarten has carried out the practice of such co-enrolment programme in 2017. We promoted the all-round development and inclusion of deaf and hearing children in the whole kindergarten through strategies such as increasing the participation of parents of deaf and hearing children and exploring the effectiveness of sign bilingual cooperation.

Biography:
Zhang Hua-ying, female, is a senior teacher with a master’s degree in Education and the fourth and fifth Famous Teachers in Quzhou City. She has served as the supervisor of the Qicaiqiao Kindergarten under the Quzhou Special Education School, Zhejiang Province for more than ten years, and is currently a consultant of the Preschool Education Office. During her tenure as the supervisor, with the support of the school leadership, the kindergarten has been successively awarded as the first-class kindergarten in Zhejiang Province, the first experimental base of Medical-Educational Integration in China, the experimental base of Integrated education for deaf children in China and Finland, and the host of the 2019 National Seminar on Educational Rehabilitation and Integrated Education Curriculum and Teaching Reform for Children with Hearing Impairment. The sign bilingual and co-teaching programme of the kindergarten was awarded the 2018 Education Highlights of the Quzhou Education Bureau.