Personalized health plans made for disabled children

Shanghai will make comprehensive health assessments and rehabilitation plans for disabled children who have reached school age from this year.

According to the city's health and education departments, more than 200 children who have various types of disabilities will enter primary school this year.

So far, medical experts from the city's children's hospitals are working with special-education experts to make initial health assessments of children who will enter primary school this fall. Under the plan, they will first make a health assessment and then a long-term rehabilitation training program for each child.

The health assessments will identify the children's physical condition, intelligence development, psychological behavior and ability to adapt to society. With this basis, education authorities can then provide individualized education, rehabilitation and health care programs, which can help the children better adapt to school life, according to the city's health and education departments.