Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
Visiting Special Schools In Ho Chi Minh City
For disabled children, special education and care is an essential need. A special school may not be spacious, but it will become their second homes and families, helping unfortunate children to (1) _______ knowledge and skills as well as self-confidence in order to (2) _______ better into the community.
The Future School, a semi-boarding school, now has 40 handicapped children, from ages 6 to 16. The principal of Future School said, “Most of the students here have difficulties with language and life skills. So I (3) _______ great importance to improving their life skills and developing their language skills as much as possible.
Ms. Thu Huong, who has worked in the school for a many years, is also interested in teaching life skills to students. I (4) _______ them with my heart and try to develop suitable learning programmes for them. Teaching them is very difficult because of the (5) _______ between school and family. So, I always recommend families help students review what I taught during the day, so that the day after we can receive the students’ (6) _______ from home about the lessons”, said she.
The Glow Blind Center has been (7) _______ for 29 years to teach and care (8) ______ the blind. About 30 blind students have been sponsored by the center, most of them from difficult backgrounds. Every morning, the center’s Sisters (9) _______children to Nguyen Dinh Chieu School, a special school for the handicapped, and pick them up in the afternoon for after-school help and to feed them. (10) _______ they are not blind themselves, the Sisters all want to learn Braille to be closer to their children.
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