Shouting "Mom" takes a second for a normal child, but for autistic children, it can take a month or more. On the fourth floor of Jiangdu Tongxin Rehabilitation Center, the teacher kept repeating the instructions, but did not bring any touch to the children, they kept crying, and when a child shouted "Mother", there was a burst of applause in the class.
Child: Every bit of progress is incredibly hard
When Chenchen was two years old, his parents found that he could not speak, always crying, liked to run all over the house, climbed to the table and then jumped on the chair, his parents sensed that something was wrong, and took him to Nanjing Hospital for medical treatment. Through the doctor's diagnosis, Chenchen suffered from autism, after a year of treatment in Nanjing, because of economic reasons, his parents took him back to Jiangdu, through the district disabled people's federation to learn about the free rescue of the Tongxin Rehabilitation Center, they sent Chenchen to the center.
Like Tatsumi, there are many autistic children in the center, who do not like to talk, fidget, and cry all the time. In the first two or three months, it was impossible to start normal language, cognition and other rehabilitation training, so the teachers carried out induction system, Orff music and other training. "When these children first arrived, they were basically crying, they couldn't calm down at all, and the first thing they had to do was to ease their emotions, and sometimes for a month, they were still like that." Wang Yan is a teacher for autistic children at Tongxin Rehabilitation Center and has more than 7 years of teaching experience.
On Wang Yan's desk are many densely packed "Children's Rehabilitation Information Cards" and "Rehabilitation Training Manuals", which record the details of each child she brings, the changes in classes every week and the teaching plan.
"Tatsumi, sit well, learn from the teacher, point to the eyes." In the classroom, Wang Yan stood in the middle of the classroom, repeating simple words and doing simple actions, but Chenchen did not react at all, just repeated her words. Wang Yan kept repeating the instructions and making constant movements. Chen Chen successfully pointed his little finger into his eyes, and Wang Yan immediately applauded and rewarded him.
Half a year later, accompanied by her parents and teachers, Chenchen can sit quietly in class and follow Wang Yan vaguely saying "Red... Huang ..." Half a year, learning to recognize several colors, learning to speak a few words, a few words, is the state of most children, but also a great progress, for them, out of the closed heart, accept the outside world, has been a lot of courage.
Family: The "Marathon" Without Knowing the End
For parents of children with autism, this is a "marathon", always running, but where the end point is, I don't know. Xuan Xuan is 7 years old this year, when he was diagnosed with autism, his parents collapsed and sad, and collected a lot of treatment plans and articles about autism on the Internet, but the answer was, "There is no very effective treatment plan for autism."
After understanding, the parents sent Xuan Xuan to the rehabilitation center for early intervention treatment. At the beginning, the parents took turns to take care of Xuanxuan, "We are an ordinary family, now I and the child's father make money, we are all afraid of getting sick, once sick, we have to spend money to treat the disease, there is no way to take care of the child, Xuanxuan is still so small." Xuan Xuan's mother's deep voice revealed the helplessness and exhaustion of countless parents of autistic children.
After 3 years of rehabilitation training, Xuan Xuan can slowly say some simple words, you can also shout a mother, every time you see Xuan Xuan's progress, Xuan Xuan's mother is extremely excited, "In fact, he can grow up healthy, I am already very satisfied, as for what work he can do in the future, or how successful, I dare not ask for too much." Speaking of this, Xuan Xuan's mother couldn't help but moisten her eyes again.
Children who are accompanied by their parents should be lucky. Nini was not so lucky, and her parents divorced because they could not accept the fact that Nini was an autistic child, leaving the child to her grandmother in her fifties. Every morning at 6:30 a.m., Grandma took 5-year-old Nini from the bridge to the rehabilitation center by bus, accompanied her to complete various rehabilitation training, learned about Nini's recovery with the teachers, and then took the bus home after the end. For two years, Nini and Grandma would arrive at the center on time almost every day.
Seeing that such a young granddaughter can't live like a normal person, Grandma is also bitter in her heart, "Every day when I take the car back and forth, the children also suffer, and some people in the car don't understand and will gossip, but there is no way." Grandma said, and began to wipe away tears.
Teacher: Companionship is the best rehabilitation drug
On the fourth floor of the Tongxin Rehabilitation Center, the sky blue walls, playful and cute patterns plastered all over the corridor, individual training classrooms, sensory integration classrooms, one next to the other, there is no loud reading sound, more is the noise. The teachers kept repeating a simple word, and the children talked to themselves, expressing their thoughts vaguely, mixed with crying and shouting.
At 8:00 a.m., the children came to the center one after another, "Joy, early." Wang Yan leaned over and touched Huan Huan's head and had a brief exchange with Huan Huan's mother. Afterwards, Huan Huan and other children walked into the bright classroom accompanied by their parents.
In the classroom, six or seven chairs are fanned out, parents assist in the back, and there are various toys on the desk. Wang Yan led the children to make movements with full emotion, she took out a yellow number card, smiled at the children, "Children, this is yellow, it is the color of the sun." ”
In just 40 minutes of a lesson, Wang Yan repeated the same instruction, repeatedly doing the same action, "At first it was quite frustrated, even if it was some actions that we seemed to be very simple, they could not teach it." Wang Yan said that allowing autistic children to speak quietly and send out a syllable requires hundreds of training sessions, sometimes a sentence for a month.
In the Tongxin Rehabilitation Center, there are 15 rehabilitation teachers like Wang Yan, most of them have started to work after graduation, in the face of this special group of children, teachers will often be scratched and hurt, but they can see the progress of the children, the teachers will be very satisfied, "a little change, are the reasons to persevere." Wang Yan said that autistic children are more simple than ordinary children, living in their own world, will not express, crying and violence is their way to vent their emotions, the way to solve the problem is to integrate into their hearts, accompany them well, so as to understand their expression.
Social: A shared focus on children and parents with autism
Facing the future, most families of children with autism are very confused, not knowing whether children will integrate into society and whether they can integrate into life in the future, and now they also suffer from cold eyes from time to time.
"To take her on the bus at the beginning, you have to leave early and sit in the last row so that you have very little contact with the passengers and don't kick anyone else." Grandma Nini said that because of taking the bus, she will often be treated unfairly, which feels very uncomfortable, but now that more and more people understand autism, there will be well-meaning people on the bus, and Grandma hopes that when she is really old enough to take care of Nini, the relevant institutions in society can also take care of children.
In recent years, Tongxin Rehabilitation Center has continuously added hardware facilities to allow children to fully receive rehabilitation training and carry out recreational activities, teachers have also continued to learn and improve professional standards, nearly 100 children have gradually improved here, and nearly 100 families have found laughter from here.
On this year's 15th World Autism Awareness Day, the District Disabled Persons' Federation organized autistic children, parents and rehabilitators to participate in parent-child activities, and the innocent smiles and happy laughter of the children surrounded the entire center.
"Rehabilitation assistance for autistic children is a practical project of the provincial government's people's livelihood, this year the province plans to rehabilitate more than 12,000 autistic children, the number of tasks in our district is not less than 120, and the number of people who have passed the review and rescue has reached more than 110." Wang Dehua, director of the Rehabilitation Department of the District Disabled Persons' Federation, called on the whole society to work together to build a social security mechanism, help the high-quality development of autism rehabilitation institutions, ignite hope for the families of autistic children, create a just and benevolent society, and give all people real dignity and rights.
The care and rescue of people with autism is lifelong, "and in the days to come, they can be integrated into life." "It's the wish of an ordinary family and the wish of a healer. (The characters in the text are pseudonyms)
Source: Rong Media Center, Jiangdu District, Yangzhou City
Author: Rong Media reporter Sang Yi