April 2
Is the 15th World Autism Awareness Day
Published by the United Nations
This year's theme is
High-quality integrated education for all
In Dalian
Autistic children
Their integrated education
Employment options
Integration into society
What a situation
Dalian Ainah Autism Disorder Comprehensive Service Center Love Commodity Charity Sale
Every family is running hard in the sunshine
Youyou is 17 years old this year
Since the moment I was diagnosed with autism as a child
The happiness of the whole family collapsed in an instant
However, for more than a decade
Friends' families have long since passed
Difficult times of heartache, helplessness, anxiety
They choose to connect their hearts and hands
Face difficulties with strength
Care for the angels who come from heaven with love and courage
Over the years, friends' fathers, mothers, grandmothers, and grandfathers have always gone out of their way to teach their children to recognize things and take him to see the outside world. Now friends can not only basically take care of themselves, but also help to do some simple housework, and their personalities have become much more cheerful.
Friends complete the homework assigned by the school alone
At present, the sixth grade of Shahekou District Qizhi School has 800-1000 literate friends, can group words and sentences, read books, can write 500 daily words, can master four operations in mathematics, solve application problems, use calculators, know clocks and watches, and will spend money to buy things... "If it comes, it is safe." He is alive and kicking, can eat and sleep, and is healthy. Friends' grandfather told reporters that for families with autistic children, no one has an easy time, but we are all trying to save ourselves!
Kang Kang behaves rigidly
When the mood is agitated
Will stubbornly chop their own arms
He will also unconsciously bite and beat his mother
Kang Kang's mother told reporters: "I used to be very irritable, and I also yelled loudly and blocked it with force, but this impatience stimulated his excessive behavior even more." Now, I have changed my mind, I first try to restrain my anger, try to conform to the child's emotions, try to avoid his attacks, and try to guide him to quiet down slowly, this solution is more suitable for him. "Now, Kang Kang's emotions will still be irregularly excited, but it will soon enter a period of stability, and the number of attacks on people is getting less and less." Kang Kang also learned a lot of math problems, and the more he recognized the words, the more he sometimes took the initiative to hug his mother in a friendly way. "Without him, life might have been easy, but the silent night would have made me sleepless because I missed my son." Kang Kang's mother said that accompanying her child to grow up makes her life have no regrets.
Grandma put her hand together to assist Kang Kang in holding a pen and writing
Rehabilitation seeks a balance between respect and improvement
For the most urgently needed problems in the field of autism
There is no question of whether it can be given to a child with autism
Provide an opportunity for equitable education, age-appropriate education
In 1996
For the first time, Qizhi School in Shahekou District set up an experimental class for autism
Zero denials to school attendance for children with autism
This marks
Dalian pioneered special education schools
A pioneer in special education for children with autism
Yi Yi, an 8-year-old autistic child, is now studying at Qi Zhi School in Shahekou District. In the school days, Yi Yi has a special love for art, and the teacher seizes this feature and opens a "small stove" for her art class alone, and always alleviates Yi Yi's uneasy emotions through praise and motivation, reduces her rejection of the class, and guides her to communicate with the outside world. After a period of "education + rehabilitation", Yiyi can quietly learn in the collective classroom and express his own demands.
Classroom for autistic children at Qi Zhi School in Shahekou District
Principal Du Zengmin told reporters that the "education + rehabilitation" of autistic children cannot be delusional to deviate from the original appearance of children and deliberately transform them. Instead, we should respect the special qualities of each of them and, while maintaining the original nature of their emotions and interests, seek effective ways to open up their inner world, so as to improve their deficiencies in learning, life and social interaction.
Dalian Spark Autism Support Center is a social service disability public welfare organization with private non-enterprise unit qualification registered with dalian civil affairs bureau.
Autistic children and mothers at the Dalian Spark Autism Support Center play
The centre accepts children with autism free of charge and provides them with rehabilitation training and social integration activities. Advocating the "parent reading together" model, Tao Li, the head of the center, introduced that in the process of companionship, parents can deepen their understanding of their children's personality, timely and accurately find out the cause of children's tantrums, which is very beneficial to the correction and rehabilitation of children. Professional and diversified rehabilitation education from special schools and rehabilitation institutions has helped their family education find a direction and opened a window for the "children of the stars".
Caring for autism, we are always on the road
Handmade works for autistic children
At the end of 2021, the winner list of the Liaoning Provincial Basic Education Teaching Achievement Award was announced, and the "Research on the "Four Education Integration" Education and Rehabilitation Model Research - 25 Years of Autism Education Exploration and Practice" declared by Qizhi School in Shahekou District was listed and won the first prize.
The education model is to take the effective placement of autistic students as the starting point, the autism education rehabilitation, survival and employment as the main line of education, under the guidance of the special education concept of "inclusive education" and "combination of medical education", leading autistic students to carry out labor education, environmental education, survival education and discipline education in schools, opening up a new path for autistic students to implement vocational education and job placement after graduation.
For the autistic group, from speaking, to reading and literacy, to sensory integration training, every bit of progress and change is full of hardships and twists and turns that ordinary people cannot imagine. Although vocational education has laid a certain foundation for autistic children to enter the workplace in the future, their own defects and shortcomings are still a major threshold that is difficult to cross for employment.
It is even more difficult for people with autism to find employment
Children with autism enter the community to participate in volunteering
Xu Hongchang, a psychiatric doctor at the Seventh People's Hospital of Dalian, told reporters that according to the previous treatment experience, about 70% of autistic patients still have a variety of obstacles after treatment and it is difficult to live completely independently, and very few can live and work independently in adulthood, but still show social naivety, unable to overcome difficulties and handle complex affairs independently.
Du Zengmin, principal of Qizhi School in Shahekou District, was deeply touched by this. Simple, repetitive, quantitative work, which must be done by human beings, is a labor that is relatively easy for autistic people to master, he said. However, the current job demand in society and the characteristics of the autistic group simply do not match. Social receptivity and employers' concerns about safety and communication issues also make it more difficult for autistic people to find employment.
The "workplace" encountered bottlenecks
Is there no way to achieve a breakthrough?
Children with autism are difficult to find employment
It's not just in Dalian
Not long ago, the research team of Shenzhen International Philanthropy College and Tencent Charity jointly completed the "Report on the Needs and Services of Elderly Autistic People", in which they specifically proposed that in the field of employment, many autistic children once they go out of school, due to no work income, lack of welfare protection and other factors, can only rely on parents at home to raise, the results of the early rehabilitation training gradually declined.
At the Dalian Autism Disorder Comprehensive Service Center, the staff built various practice platforms for the children. Two years ago, Hee-taek signed an employment contract with the company and became a file scanner. Before Xi Ze took up his post, Ai Na arranged a special employment counselor for Xi Ze, in the early stage of the job, the counselor will pay close attention to the child's movements and work adaptability, and after successfully taking up the post, the counselor will also track the whole process to help the company communicate with these "different" employees.
The scanning work was a new challenge for Hee-taek, but he braved the difficulties, insisted on studying hard, and finally became a regular employee after 5 months of skills training, internship and trial with the support of the venue, equipment, technical guidance and employment counselor provided by the employer.
The children, led by the teacher, work with volunteers to make paperwork and get to know each other during the interaction
Zhang Yan, founder of the Arna Autism Disorder Comprehensive Service Center, said that it is indeed very difficult for autistic children to find employment, but it is not completely without a path. Employment counselors are an important link and link to solve the breakpoint of social integration and open up employment paths. Of course, in addition to employment counselors, the most important thing is that helping children with autism to find employment must have a natural support system, the love of employers, and the environmental support of the executive team. All of this requires the government's policy inclination and the injection of social forces.
Children make their meals under the guidance of the owner of Aina Star Delight Bakery
Integration into society requires help from multiple sources
Yuan Yin, a professor of special education at the School of Education of Liaoning Normal University, said that each child is different and has differences, and we must not only integrate, but also look for differences in them. The integration of autistic children into society is a systematic project that requires the support of society, the attention and support of national policies, school efforts, and family development.
There is no chasm that cannot be crossed! How to increase support for autistic groups, expand the scope of help, and effectively weld the "broken chain" life of autistic people is an urgent problem to be solved.
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