Source: Health Times reporter Shi Mengzhu
"Let's pinch a strip and stretch it." In the pottery room of the rehabilitation treatment of Xi'an Traditional Chinese Medicine Encephalopathy Hospital, several special children are concentrating on handmade works under the guidance of doctors. After nearly half an hour of creation, a round "ice pier" was made.
Children's "Ice Pier" works. Courtesy of respondents.
The 6-year-old autistic child and He (pseudonym), one of the makers of the "ice pier", came to the pottery room for nearly a year to take handicraft classes. He and dad said: "These days we are at home with our children to watch the Winter Olympic Games, although there is a lack of social interest, but these edutainment treatments make children have more contact with the world!" ”
Some manual operations can be effective in helping the rehabilitation of special children. Li Boxia, director of the Rehabilitation Education Department of Xi'an Traditional Chinese Medicine Encephalopathy Hospital, introduced that manual activities are conducive to children's hand and brain development, while special children with autism, autism, Down syndrome and other diseases often have social communication disorders, motor dysfunction, etc. In addition to routine medical treatment, it is more necessary to carry out social rehabilitation training from all aspects of body and mind.
The children are working with the doctor to make "ice piers". Courtesy of respondents
"For example, some special children's movements are slow, and they need to slowly understand the doctor's words, and several children can complete a work together, which can also strengthen the ability of teamwork." Li Boxia said that the theme activities with the Winter Olympics and the ice pier made the children very happy, in addition to interacting with the people around them, but also strengthened the children's participation in social events.
In 2017, Xi'an Traditional Chinese Medicine Encephalopathy Hospital opened the "Xingbao Angel Children's Art Troupe" to carry out different types of theme activities such as pottery, singing, painting, origami and other special groups of children. From the "Tiananmen" on national day to the production of "Fourteen Luck Mascots", from pinching the "Great White" to pay tribute to anti-epidemic workers to paying attention to the Winter Olympics, social hotspot events are combined with teaching for rehabilitation and treatment, and children perceive and participate in social life in one theme teaching class after another, and can better integrate into society.
Every time she saw the children give their own handmade works to their parents, the parents and children showed happy smiles, Li Boxia felt satisfied and relieved, and he was also full of confidence in these children: "As long as the children's hearts are opened, I think their abilities are infinite!" ”