"We're all the same, we're all great!"

After Pengpeng finished speaking the tongue twister, the teacher applauded him and encouraged him. Photo by reporter Feng Wei

"A tiger in the mountains, a deer in the woods, a pig on the side of the road, a rabbit in the grass, and a rat, we count, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, tiger, deer, pig, rabbit, rat..." Following the childish voice, you will see a little boy fluently speaking tongue twisters. Half a year ago, he did not have the will to take the initiative to express, nor did he speak coherent language, and only when he was questioned would he "jump" out of extremely short words such as "eat" and "thirst".

The boy, Pengpeng (pseudonym), is 5 years old and is a hearing impaired child. Like the vast majority of hearing-impaired children, due to extremely severe sensorineural deafness, Pengpeng has been pressed the "mute button" since birth and cannot hear all kinds of beautiful sounds in the world. Fortunately, with the help of governments at all levels, Pengpeng and 5 other hearing-impaired children received integrated education, entered a normal kindergarten in Xi'an, studied, played and lived with sound children, and became more and more sunny and confident in the environment of love and equality.

On March 3, the "Shaanxi Provincial Rehabilitation Education Integration Base for Hearing Impaired Children" was listed in the Eighth Kindergarten of Lianhu District, which is also the first provincial rehabilitation education integration base for hearing-impaired children in Shaanxi.

Classmates with hearing-impaired children

Ordinary children learn to "empathize"

In the view of ma Jingjun, a kindergarten teacher, the hearing impaired children in the class, An An and Tian Tian (both pseudonyms), are no different from ordinary children.

Ma Jingjun is the second class teacher of the Eighth Kindergarten in Lianhu District. Before entering school last fall, she learned that the kindergarten cooperated with the Shaanxi Provincial Hearing and Language Rehabilitation Center to try to explore the integration of preschool education, and actively accepted 6 hearing-impaired children to attend the class, and her class will be divided into two 3-year-old hearing impaired children.

"For hearing-impaired children and ordinary children to learn together, for hearing-impaired children, they can better participate in social activities, get more opportunities for interactive communication and language development, and social development can be greatly improved." Ma Jingjun is happy to become a "kindergarten mother" for hearing-impaired children, but she also has a hint of worry - hearing-impaired children wear hearing aids and cochlear implants every day, how to protect these devices?

After some thought and preparation, Ma Jingjun gave a special lesson to the children as soon as the school started. "I played a cartoon in which the hearing-impaired child was called 'Teletubbies' because he was wearing a hearing aid. None of his friends will touch his device, and everyone is very friendly and equal. ”

To Ma Jingjun's surprise, the children in the class were young but very sensible. Before and after the nap, there would often be "worried" children whispering to her, "Teacher, help An An and Tian Tian take off the hearing aids." "Teacher, help them put on their hearing aids." On weekdays, children never touch the hearing aids of the two children.

"This is An An and Tian Tian's 'little ears' and their good friends." Once, the head of the kindergarten, Wang Qin, overheard the children's words in the second grade, which made her very moved. "Integrated education benefits not only special children, ordinary children can truly appreciate the diversity of life in such an environment, will know more about caring and respecting others, and will be more loving and tolerant." Wang Qin sighed.

The teacher's "ordinary heart"

Help special children integrate into kindergarten life

"I want to paint." "I'm going to build a building!" On March 3, in the regional activity class, An An and Tian Tian chose watercolor smudge painting and desktop construction projects respectively. Together with their friends, the two are concentrating on "creation".

In her daily activities, Ma Jingjun treats An An and Tian Tian with the same requirements as other children. "We attach great importance to the physical training of young children, football, basketball, jump rope, etc. are our special projects. When I first entered the park, An An even had a hard time jumping on both feet, and now she can jump more than ten times in a row! ”

During the class, Ma Jingjun would pay more attention to An An and Tian Tian. "Because of the hearing aids, the two children sometimes don't really hear. When I tell them about picture books, I speak more slowly, and when I do regional activities, I will first introduce the names of the children sitting opposite each other to make it easier for them to communicate. Ma Jingjun said.

When he first entered the kindergarten, Tian Tian was very reluctant to go to kindergarten, and every day he had to sit at the door of the classroom to find his father. After a period of integration, the two children can now call out the names of more than 80% of the classmates in the class, and the children are very happy and harmonious together. More importantly, as they become more and more familiar, other children treat An An and Tian Tian like ordinary children, and this "equality" and the teacher's "ordinary heart" are very important for special children to integrate into society, and also make the parents of An An and Tian Tian very warm.

The first provincial rehabilitation education for hearing impaired children in our province

The fusion base is located in Lianhu Bayu

In Lianhu District No. 8 Kindergarten, the first provincial rehabilitation education integration base for hearing-impaired children in our province, professional teachers will be stationed in the kindergarten to help deaf children with speech correction and training in hearing, cognition, social interaction and other aspects one-on-one, so that children can develop in an all-round way.

"In the past six months, Pengpeng's progress has been very great. I found in the class observation that now he is willing to take the initiative to talk to teachers and children, will say 'let's draw together, play together', and even provide teachers and friends with help within their ability. Zhang Qiuhong, a special teacher at the Shaanxi Provincial Hearing and Language Rehabilitation Center, said happily, "Every hearing-impaired child has made great progress, I can 'hear' their voices from their eyes and actions, and they want to tell the world - 'We are all the same, we are all great!'" ’”

It is reported that the integrated education of hearing impaired children is an effective form of education suitable for hearing impaired children, which is conducive to their own all-round development and is an important step for hearing impaired children to enter the normal social environment. There are currently 137,400 people with certified hearing impairments in our province. For the rescue of children with hearing disabilities, our province has achieved "rescue and rescue", more than 85% of them have passed the hearing language rehabilitation training, entered ordinary kindergartens and primary and secondary schools to study, and some later entered colleges and universities.

Reporter Wang Yan Intern Lu Jiaoyan

【Source: Xi'an Evening News】