Walk into the Occupational Health Station
Text/Chen Qian
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Vocational rehabilitation stations for the disabled are referred to as occupational rehabilitation stations, or warm homes. Rehabilitation stations are places for the training of the mentally, mentally or physically disabled, to improve their self-care, social communication skills and simple labor skills, and to lay the foundation for their better integration into society.
And I, after last year's National Day, under the recommendation of the leaders of the Town Disabled Persons' Federation, came to the town vocational kang station where my home was located to take over a new job, I will be disabled, teaching mildly intelligent students to sing, read poetry, do handicrafts, etc. On-the-job kang station teaching, everything is based on happy companionship, for the purpose of developing the hand brain, to learn or motivate... In the three months I spent with them, I studied and grew with them, and they also left me with a lot of touch and thought.
They come to the occupational health station, in addition to learning, more is to find the most basic happiness and companionship in life. And my arrival has greatly enriched the types of activities they have.
My main responsibility is to teach them to sing, some of them are illiterate, some of them are not clear in language, some of them are not able to see, some of them have uncoordinated limbs. I didn't expect to sing only the most basic song for more than a month. So when I teach them, I am challenged to be more patient than I am teaching children. I took them over and over again, repeating in different ways; reading the lyrics slowly and clearly, explaining the lyrics in the most straightforward and lifelike language; learning and practicing sentence by sentence, repeating the memories of the snowball; the individual guidance one by one under the stage, the two-person guidance who was too timid to open their mouths; the practice of singing together on stage, and finally taking them with them and the accompaniment until a song could be sung in unison under my leadership. My first choice is a melody, simple rhythm, popular lyrics and good sound "You Laugh So Beautiful", after learning the above process, they sang a song for the first time. At the beginning of December, in response to the winter Olympic culture, the District Cultural Center and the Tourism Bureau jointly organized the fifth art and cultural activities, in order to enrich their lives, under the organization of the station manager and our staff, I led them to sing and submit this song. After competing for the video preliminary selection and the final performance, I was fortunate to receive the Outstanding Performance Award. In my opinion, the judges of this award are more of an encouragement to them, and for them it is more of a confidence and joy. I can feel their happiness and small sense of accomplishment, and this is the value of my existence.
After that, I led them to learn to read modern poetry, taking them to slowly feel the connection between words and life, and carefully experience the temperature of life. Although I had to slow down when reading poems and divide them into short plays, it was difficult for them to memorize them completely after reading them several times, but in the process of reading with them, they undoubtedly exercised their language expression skills.
I taught them to make handmade origami, using colored paper to fold small fans, small wallets, sunflowers, lilies, etc. In the process of teaching them to fold, I need to explain in detail step by step while doing demonstrations, or hand-in-hand individual assistance. In the process of doing handicrafts, I found that they were a crowd that was easy to satisfy. When they hold their finished work in their hands, they all smile contentedly.
I also taught them to do beading crafts, and beading is a patient job. I told them how to string beads, how to loop the line to buckle, how to make marks to identify the left and right lines, the same two or three steps repeated dozens of times, three or five days just learned how to make. When it comes to making up works, they can't figure out the laws of making up numbers that we think are easy to make up, so they can only tirelessly compile one by one, and the slightly smarter ones can finish the exact same repetitive steps in asking me... In the process of teaching them to make handicrafts, I found that they had amazing patience, even if a step was repeated a dozen times wrong, they would still be very obedient to re-operate when re-talking. A piece that I can complete in just two or three hours, they take two or three weeks, or even longer. But they all used their own persistence, with their own hands, to make up one by one works for themselves, peach hearts, apples, rabbits, bears... These are "educational toys" they have never touched before, and in the process of teaching them, I have accumulated how to speak clearly, teach them the language of communication, and at the same time share the joy of their success. There was a student who was always worried about whether she could learn at first, worried that the teacher would say to her and laugh at her, and every time she only watched from the side and was embarrassed to learn. But seeing others make up a small work is finally itchy and also joined the learning team. When she made up and took away the first small round ball the next day, she also brought me hand cream, specially thanking me for teaching her hand in hand. ......
They love to chat with the staff, repeating their life trivia several times, and saying what is psychological seems to be their happiness. Maybe it's family chores, maybe it's friction between students, or they're jokes at home. If a student told me that she had two playmate cats, who could understand language and play hide-and-seek with her, one day she and her lover had to go out to play separately, and her lover asked her to put the meat on the table in the refrigerator, and she put one of the cats as meat in the refrigerator shelf. When she returned, her lover had already returned home, her lover was sitting on the couch angry, the meat had already been eaten by the cat on the table, she opened the refrigerator and saw the cat meowing for help before suddenly remembering what happened before going out...
Sometimes they are very obedient, and sometimes they are quite stubborn. If they can help, they will do their best. If they don't do a good job, they will feel guilty like a child. Most of them are not confident enough, saying "I can't do it", "I want to learn, but I learn slowly, afraid that you will be annoyed", and so on. Some time ago, I participated in the Winter Olympics recitation activity, the score had a voting link, and I also posted the voting link to the student group of the Vocational Health Station. Half of the trainees are not very good at operating mobile phones, but they all want to help me, and even pull their relatives to help me, their hearts are very touching, but it is really laborious to explain to them how to operate the mini program. Therefore, they finally understood or their family members helped vote, and they must be happy to tell me that he helped me finish voting, and if they did not succeed, they would be embarrassed to explain his mood and problems to me several times, but it made me feel embarrassed.
Because they have limited external contact and limited IQ comprehension, they are like a teenage child who needs to be inclusive and understanding with love. Even though I haven't been with them for long, I think I've been one of the most important people in their lives. And I can do more, and I need to do more...
【About the author】Chen Qian, a native of Beijing. Graduated in musicology, he specializes in singing and piano. He is currently engaged in children's music education and is keen to participate in public welfare activities. He loves to read, history, poetry, novels and fairy tales. Maybe life is unexpected, but I am still grateful to meet every you who has created my colorful life. Books and music are the pure land of my soul, and I only want to share love and happiness. The text is mostly published in mountain pomegranates.