1. Education for All Children with Visual and Multiple Disabilities in Vietnam
Sister Van Nga Le
Nhat Hong Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired
VIETNAM

2. Content
Situation
Challenges
Solutions

3. Situation Number: >1,000 children with MDVI
Level: mild to severe visual and mutiple disabilities
Living area: most in rural areas,
fewer in urban areas.

4. Situation Receiving Educational service: ¼ receive educational service
¾ receive no educational service

5. Educational settings
Nhat Hong Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired
NDC School for the Blind
Private organizations.

6. Financial support
BVCF
CBM PI
ONNET
Other donors

7. IEP
General Curriculum
Abilities
Desires
Living conditions

8. EARLY INTERVENTION Early identification.
Working with parents & care givers.
Skills development.

9. INCLUSIVE EDUCATION For children with mild MDVI
Pre-integration skills.
Providing educational materials and support teachers.

10. TEACHER TRAINING No long-term training Various short-term training
Module of MDVI in curriculum of teacher training.

11. CHALLENGES Very few schools or centers serving children with MDVI.
- Lack of trained teachers.
- Lack of specialists.
- Lack of educational materials.

12. Long distance between families and schools.
- Lack of public transportation.
- Lack of private transportation
- Very few residential schools.

13. Social awareness
- People
- Parents
- Local communities

14. Network
- Hospitals & schools
- Schools & other agencies

15. SOLUTIONS
Nhat Hong Center provide service for children with MDVI, regardless their level of visual and multiple disabilities, and their life conditions.

16. A flexible model of service delivery
- Special or inclusive schools
- Live at home, orphanage or schools
- Summer camp

17. Including career training into the Transition program.
- Learning to work
- Working to learn
- Ready for getting suitable job

18. Educational material resources
- Low-cost technology
- Low-cost materials
- Library service

19. Human resources
- Send teachers to attend trainings outside.
- Conduct short-term trainings at Nhat Hong Center
- Provide training materials

20. Networking
- Association for the Blind
- Hospitals & other agencies
- Authorities & communities
- Teachers & schools
- Orphanage & families

21. Awareness raising
- Public speech
- Events
- Flyers, booklets, video
- Public media
- Internet

22. CONCLUSION Education for All
- The right to be care, educated and work.
- There is no child who cannot learn, only teachers who do not know how to teach.

23. Education will help children with MDVI
- to live more independently and happily
- to be inclusive
- to have a better future

24. Thank you! Sister Van Nga Le