Pingjiang Loving Mother founded a special education and health center

□ special correspondent Zou Shui

Seven years ago, Chen Li's son was diagnosed with autism. After learning this result, she instantly felt that the sky had fallen. In the days that followed, she began to take her children on a long road to seek medical treatment.

In the process of seeking medical treatment, Chen Li met many such children. In order to let these families work together to tide over the difficulties, she is well aware of the hardships, relying on her years of medical experience, she set up a health care center in Nanjiang Town, Pingjiang County, to help children recover and treat.

Take your child around for medical treatment and be prepared for hardship

Seven years ago, Chen Li found that her 1-and-a-half-year-old son Xiaoyu (pseudonym) had some abnormalities: he should not be called by name, did not have any sense of danger, loved to cry, loved to lie on the ground, and often fell. After taking his son to the hospital for examination, his son was diagnosed with congenital autism. The doctor told Chen Li that autism, also known as autism, has no cure at present, only early detection and early intervention, and try to let the children have the ability to take care of themselves. This is tantamount to a thunderbolt on a sunny day, thinking about her son's future, Chen Li does not know how many tears shed.

After returning, Chen Li closed the clothing store that had been in business for many years and took her son to Changsha, Shenzhen, Beijing and other places for rehabilitation training, spending millions of yuan. In the process of taking her son to seek medical treatment, Chen Li went to relevant institutions for teacher training and parent training many times, at the same time, she also read a large number of relevant books, and successfully obtained a rehabilitation certificate through hard work.

For autism requires a lot of energy and money, along the way, Chen Li witnessed many families destitute due to children's rehabilitation interventions, and some even gave up rehabilitation treatment directly due to the high cost of off-site interventions. Endless rehabilitation interventions, endless financial investment, and too many inconveniences to go to other places for rehabilitation treatment every time, gradually, Chen Li had a bold idea in her heart: to run a rehabilitation center for children with autism in her own home. This can not only do rehabilitation treatment for the son at home, but also help other families with autism in the vicinity. This idea was supported by her husband.

Self-run rehabilitation and recuperation center to help themselves and others

Starting from November 2020, the Pingjiang County Xingran Special Children's Health Care Center was officially established in March this year in Sanyuan Community of Nanjiang Town, which is an institution specializing in the training and convalescence of children with mental development disorders such as autism, intellectual disability, developmental delay, language development backwardness and Tang's. Currently, 38 children with autism are undergoing rehabilitation training at the centre.

The process of recovery of every autistic child is extremely long, and the hardships paid by their families are unimaginable. "Just to allow children to go to the toilet independently, it took three years to learn." Chen Li said that parents of special children must pay patience, and this patience will certainly bring great rewards. "Because of proper exercise, my son can now not only serve tea and pour water, but also go out to buy things and take the courier independently."

Ms. Wang, a parent of junjun (pseudonym), a child with autism, said happily that after a period of rehabilitation intervention, the child has now become lively and can understand some daily instructions. "Originally, I was also very anxious, with the attitude of trying it out, accompanied by my 6-year-old son to do rehabilitation, and now after seeing his progress, I feel hopeful, at least he should be able to live and take care of himself in the future, and be able to simply integrate into the big collective of society."

It is reported that since the opening of the center, Chen Li has invested all of her previous business savings and her husband's salary, but she is still stretched, "mainly to update the rehabilitation training knowledge, often send teachers to other places for training, and invite experts to the center to train teachers and parents." Chen Li said that she is pleased that the efforts of the staff of the center have been recognized by the provincial, municipal and county disabled persons' federations, as well as the local government and society. What is more gratifying is that through rehabilitation training, 6 children in the center have been able to enter kindergartens and schools like ordinary children.

【Source: Yueyang Evening News】