Rhythm and melody in hearts: photo story (5)

In a midsummer afternoon, several hearing impaired students practiced dance in a dancing room in Yichang special education school, central China’s Hubei province. They looked at themselves in the mirror and constantly adjusted their arms and body gestures.

Hearing impaired students have to pay much more efforts and time memorizing dance moves on the right point in time than other people. Sweat wet their faces and hair. It is very common for these students not to follow the rhythm and stepping on the beats.

Under the instruction of the teacher’s sign language, the students practiced their dance moves again and again. After repeated rehearsals, the children can step on every rhythm and make every dance move at right point of time. Students rediscovered themselves in dance and they became much more confident than before.