The Father-Daughter Pair on that Bicycle Trail

The tale of the father and the daughter, how he’d, taken care of her, loved her, unconditionally, translated…

I have a preferred way of exercising, I’d often, ridden my bicycle around the neighborhood, I’d ridden all over the bicycle trails locally, mostly, these trails are, separated from the sidewalk for pedestrians and the flow of traffic of motor vehicles, with almost nobody around, the wind gentle, very, leisurely, I also got to, take in the sights of the fields, and, it’s no wonder, that this trail is, often populated with those who’d come out to exercise by walking or jogging.

like this, father-child pair…just to see his child, smile…photo from online

One day, at the “Pump Trail”, I saw a tricycle coming in the distance, that nostalgic look of it, with the brightly sprayed on colors, it’d caught my, attention.  As the tricycle came closer, I saw a girl in a sports cap, and dark glasses, from the posture she’d sat, and the looks, I suspect she may be a handicap person.

And the one riding the tricycle was older, close to my age, wearing a t-shirt, in shorts, sneakers, from his dark complexion and plump calves, I’m inclined to believe, that he must’ve been, ridden the tricycle a long, long time, to get his dark complexion and bulky muscles.

There were the rest stops of the bicycle trail, the tricycle stopped to rest temporarily, I was just running across the stop, with that curiosity, I’d asked this, “stagecoach”, how he’d come to own this, odd looking, tricycle, and who was he chauffeuring, around?  Turns out, the young lady he was lifting is his youngest daughter, severely mentally retarded, with the severe sort of scoliosis, she’d gone to special education school from her elementary all the way to high school, when she was younger, she knew how to call out “dad”, but, with the atrophy of her brain, she’d, not talked these days.

He originally owned a pickup to take his youngest to and from school, but during Typhoon Morakot, it’d, gotten, drenched and, became junk, so he’d, custom-ordered this, tricycle with the seats; after his youngest graduated from high school, she’d needed someone to watch over her, and he can only, quit his work as a janitor at a local college, and start working as a, full-time, dad.

caring for his handicap child…as both the parent and the child, ages…photo from online

The original tricycle didn’t have the covers over it, after two kind souls learned, they’d come all the way from Tainan, to install the covers, and they’d not received any payment, nor left any contact information, their acts of kindness, were truly, amazing.

The youngest couldn’t sit still at home, when she’d felt upset, she’d started, slapping herself, rammed her head into the walls, and so, he could take her out every day to divert her attention, to see the sights, their tracks covered almost all of Chiayi.  And now, as he grew older, he isn’t as agile as he used to be, but, so long as his youngest daughter is happy, he will, chauffeur her until he couldn’t do it anymore, and their story, touched me.

After this, short conversation with me, he’d, peddled on his tricycle, continued onward, looking at the backside of the man, I was totally in awe, such an, amazing, father!

So, this is, the dedication, the love and the care this man showed to his own, daughter who’s handicapped, and, it showed, how it takes, even MORE, energies, to raise a child with the mental decapacitation up into adulthood, and these children, will in turn, become their parents’, aging companions when they’re, older too.

The Violence in the Classrooms, Blamed on the Disabilities, Resolved with the Parents’ Picking the Students up and Taking Them Home for the Day?

This is, hindsight, had the school, been aware of the needs of this, special needs student, and take the precautions, then, this “beat down” may well have been, averted, but it wasn’t, because the school lacked the foresight in preparation for these sorts of things in the classroom setting, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

A student in a high school in Taipei was suspected of feeling upset over how the instructor had, reprimanded him, he’d lost control, run up to the podium, spat in the instructor’s face, and started, beating on the instructor, the instructor sustained multiple swelling injuries, the school, afterwards, had the parents take the student, home.  The Department of Education of Taipei stated, that the student is a special needs student, and in the time being, the school already, counseled him, and the school is going to allot the funds for the instructor’s sustained injuries.  The experts pointed out, that when something like this happens, the instructor should try and sever the student away from the tension that s/he is feeling at the time, for example, lead the student out of the class to cool off.

Based off of understanding, the incident happened at the end of last month, as the disciplinary official, other instructors arrived in the classroom, they’d first, calmed the student down, and taken care of him emotionally, but the student was still emotional, started kicking at the door multiple times, and screamed out loud, to the point of retuning, to assault the instructor, again, and the other saw him, and rushed up, subdued him, the instructor’s clothes were torn, and sustained redness and swelling in injuries.

The school stated, that the student is emotionally troubled, and physically violent, special needs student, at the time, he may have lacked the means to communicate with the instructor, but the instructor didn’t have any bad intentions, that in the future, the school will hire outside resources to intervene, to help the student improve on his behaviors in the classroom setting.

The Department of Education stated, the school, in the shortest time, offered counseling to the entire classroom, and the student who’d acted out is currently taken care of and school at home, waiting until he became more emotionally stable, then, he will return to class, and the school had filed for the special needs resources for the student.

The experts pointed out, the special needs students usually have a combination of disabilities and emotional troubles, and may become extremely sensitive to the situation that they are in, suggested to simplify the classroom, to reduce the noises; and, in similar situations, the school instructor should “interrupt” the students from the students’ tensing up feelings.

some guidelines, for managing a classroom with special needs students…found online

The assistant director, the psychiatrist in Taoyuan Home of the Department of Health Sanitations & Welfares, Lee said, the children with a combined diagnoses of autism, may be persistent with certain rituals of their daily routines, for instance, if they’d heard loud noises in class, they may be worked up, had the instructor noted the student’s feeling agitated, it’s suggested, that the instructor takes the special needs student out of the classroom setting, or get the student begin something s/he enjoys doing.  And, when group activities are assigned, the instructor should prepare the student ahead of times, as the group activities may disrupt the ordinary routines that the students are already, used, to.

And so, this is how it works, when we tried, normalizing the special needs students, into the regular classrooms, and, there’s NO T.A., assigned to stay with this student specifically, as there should have been, and the lacking of awareness of the student’s tendencies, the not noting how the student was, already, getting, upset little by little before he blew up, all added up to the student’s acting out, and beating the teacher up.

A Whole Class of Cherished Students

Each kid is with her/his, special, needs, and they’re all, unique, in their, traits, translated…

After I graduated out of the special education department, I was sent to the special needs classrooms of elementary school to teach, and it’d been, more than a decade since I was green.  Recalling how as I’d set foot into the areas of special education, everybody around me was, incredible, because from before, I was, really hurried, with absolutely, ZERO patience, while the students with the special needs, they’d needed, time, patience, and tolerance.  In the decades of teaching the classes, a lot of people said, that I’d become, more patient now, while it’s these, students who’d, changed the way I think, not that I’d become, more patient, rather than calling me their school teacher, they’d, taught me, more—they’d taught me reverse thinking, to let me know, that everybody has a designated reason for being here in life; more importantly, these children, helped me know myself more.

When Rui-Rui was only three, he was diagnosed with Asperger’s, in first grade, he could not, follow the rules of the class, during the class period, whatever he’d wanted to do, he’d gone, and done it, as he saw a bird flying, he’d, run to the outside of the classroom; and he’d wanted to play with the other children during break, but couldn’t find a right way to interact with them, and started, grabbing the toys from his classmates’, hands, and, the other students would tell on him, and he’d gotten, grilled by his teachers, and couldn’t understand, WHY he was, punished.  He is excellent in modeling after others, he’d especially loved the short phrases on the advertisements, his favorite of late was, “Global warming is worsening, I will, NOT have any more air-conditioning anymore!)

a special needs class…photo from online

Xun, when he was only three, was diagnosed with moderate mental retardation, his parents fell from the clouds to the lows then, and felt bad for not giving him a good mind, and only hoped that he is happy, learning in school.  As he’d entered into the first grade, he couldn’t write a single word, couldn’t speak in complete sentences, his most overly used words were, “good morning” and “bye-bye”.  Too many pen strokes in his own name, it took him a whole of three months, he’d finally begun, writing, legibly.  His cognitive development stayed in the sensor-motor stages, and, the words he’d blurted out often made people laugh, for instance, the teacher asked him, “What are you going to the gas station for?”, he’d always responded, matter-of-factly, “fill me up for the 95-lead free!”

Kai-Kai was a classic dyslexic, he could verbally respond, like other children, but when it came to the written assignments, he couldn’t do it, the Chinese character he’d learned during this period of class, he’d immediately forgotten soon as the bell for the break rang; sometimes, the teacher was teaching him, and he’d, immediately, forgotten what he was, learning, he’d often asked, “why do we need writing?”, but the heavens had been, fair, what he couldn’t accomplish in writing, he’d, excelled in the mechanical, every time there was a new toy in the classroom, as the instructors are still, figuring how the toy worked, he’d looked at the toy, patted it for a few short minutes, and had it all, figured, out.

illustration from UDN.com

These three young kids are only, a small group of the entire class, if I’m to tell the story of every child in the class, it would take, more than, a whole, month!  These students, due to the genetic anomalies, or what came to them after they were born, have great difficulties, learning in the regular classrooms, and needed the instructors to pay more attention to them.  But in my mind, they all have, different amazing qualities and strengths too, they’re closer to me than the other children, simple-minded and cute; so, my words for them, is that “they may be little DEVILS to the other instructors, but they’re, all Ms. Lin’s, angels.”

So these young children with special needs, are a blessing in disguise to this, special needs instructor, and although there are the difficulties in teaching them individually, but with the patience, the concerns for these special children, the instructor will find the ways that worked, to give the needed education to her group of special needs class.

Grateful for the Unknown Stranger in a Cap

How the random act of, kindness, is exactly what this mother-son pair are in need of, and this man offered his gentle hand to them, made their days lighter…translated…

Riding the bus, my son is thirty years old, he’d looked like, an ordinary, adult, as he saw middle-aged men wearing caps, he’d stared at their backs, or, call the unknown strangers, “dad”.

Knowing that he’d missed his dead, that he couldn’t tell reality with the multiple handicaps that he had, and, this misidentification of someone unknown always left me ill-at-ease when I took him out on bus rides, and, I’d had to, constantly told him, “nope, that’s not, daddy!”, and steadied him, who’s, uncoordinated, pulled him to stand somewhere else, or, switching to another seat, to divert his, attention.  Sometimes, he’d, lifted up an unknown stranger’s cap, to see “dad”, but it’d, caused discomfort of the person, and, although I’d apologized profusely, it’d gotten the whole bus activated.  I’d heard people criticizing, “how did you discipline your son?”  “What’s wrong with him?”, “Shameful, calling a man at random his daddy!”, or, just, stared at us, sharply…and the two of us would, rushed off the bus for this.

On that day, my son called a stranger “dad” again.  And he’d not just called, and rushed to the forward rows in seating, sat next to the man.  I’d wanted to, pull my son away from him, but that man whom I’d never seen before told me it was quite all right, he’d taken my son’s hand in his, looked at him, patted his hand, told, “you miss your dad huh?  Where, is he?”, “Up in heaven!”, “then, where are you going?”……….in the close to twenty-minute long ride, we’d met, someone who was kind, who was gentle, and willing to, empathize, and ease our, minds.

As we’re getting off, my son waved goodbye really hard at the man, he was, overjoyed.  On this very day, that man who’s like an angel, popping up into our lives, accepting my son, was just like his old pop in his cap, that father who’d, loved him like he’s a priceless treasure, who’d taken him all over the places, by car, or ride the buses out, to travel across Taiwan, or places in the, world.

I was in tears, full of gratitude, thanked the man for his kindness toward my son.  In the over two years since my husband passed, there’s, only this encounter, of this man’s, empathy, kindness, to NOT make me cry, because my son mistook someone who wore a cap for his, dad.

And so, this is, a random act of kindness, from an, unknown stranger, and sometimes, there are, just those who needed someone else, to lighten up the loads, to brighten up the days, and if it’s no costs to us, like saying a hi, or waving hello, then, why not, make someone’s, day?

The Parents are Changing Their Views about Early Intervention Programs, and Became More Willing to Sought Out Treatment, the Government Can’t Catch Up to the Needs of the Demands of the Parents

On early intervention, how the parents are now, more aware, and are all, onboard the programs, but the government’s supportive systems, became, totally, LACKING!  See how this government will always be way, way, WAY behind, in all these games of CATCH-UP they’re, now, “playing”???  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

To the families that are in need of early intervention, after the assessments of the child had been made, and the needs realized, the challenges, began, and the processes are usually filled with the blood, tears, and sweats.

Jon-Jon who’s only a little over two years old, pointed to the ceiling, seemed like he wanted to speak, but nothing came, the families suspected that he may be developmentally delayed, but from getting him signed up to the treatment, to diagnoses, all the way to finally get him the treatment he’d needed, each one of these steps took two, three months, and they’d, waited for a whole of, six months, and finally, gotten him into the language therapy courses.  Jon-Jon is not an isolated case, there were, the evaluations, assessments, diagnoses of the developmentally delayed children, that had been, slow to come about for the children who are with, the special needs.

“Although he could call aloud, but he can’t say mommy or daddy, and he can’t tell us when he’s hungry”, his grandmother told, that Jon-Jon expressed himself by clapping, and when nobody understood him, he’d gotten frustrated and started, hitting people.  At first, nobody paid attention, believed, that he was a boy, that is a “late bloomer”, until at the many mentions of the neighbors, the family finally got alerted, and took him to the hospital, and yet, they didn’t him into the treatment programs immediately, they’d had to wait for six whole months to begin him in therapy, and this was, only, the beginning.

programs like this, is what this country needs, but there’s just not enough, unfortunately…photo from online

Bi at age seven, had gone down this same path of getting diagnosed and started the treatments.  As Bi was only one, he’d been, immersed in his own little world, and no matter how the adults called to him, he’d, ignored them, and, as the parents placed him in a local nursery, within a week, he’d gotten, sent back to them, because of how easily angered, he was, he’d thrown things a lot, and the teachers found something not normal, and suggested the family to take him to a major hospital for the assessments.

At around four in the evening, six years ago, his mother rushed him to the Taoyuan Treatment Home, and as the psychiatrist announced that he was, autistic, developmentally delayed, with the symptoms of A.D.H.D. too, at that very moment, his mother, blanked out, and now, thinking back, she’d still, felt, strained, following this, it took a whole of six months to get him the complete assessments, the most necessary psychotherapy treatment, with the health insurance assistances, cost only two hundred per session, but there’s, that long line before him, the family worried that this may delay his getting the help he needed, paid out of their pocket, for the $2,000N.T./ fifty-minute sessions themselves, and it was, such a heavy burden to the, family, “that’s why, all we had to show for it, is the blood, tears, and sweats!”

In January, a mom, Wang found that her five-year-old was showing signs of developmental delays, and she’d checked the local sanitation office’s website, and although, there are TEN hospitals with the assessment centers for children, but, every slot had been, filled already, there were the online appointments, and the popular classes were like the hot and trending concert tickets, there was a major children’s hospital, with the courses, fully booked to July, and another’s sign up at noon every month, and it was, out the moment the website opened up for the registrations, she couldn’t get her son the help he’d needed, and, she’d waited until May of this year, to finally get her son, assessed.

As the roads of early intervention are hard and long, a lot of families still got to see the sweet fruits of the hard labors.  After six years, Bi who’s now in the first grade, although still could improve in his own emotional control and verbal expressions, but could already, start in the regular classes to learn, he’d even entered into the many competitions within his own class too!

occupational/physical therapies for these young children with special needs…photo from online

Bi’s mother told, that she isn’t afraid that her son will face the defeats, because every time he’d fallen, it’s an opportunity for him to learn to get back up, which added to the strengths of their, fighting this war, long-term; step by step, they are finally now, seeing, that light of the, sun, rise.

And so, this, is the long road these, families are on, the early intervention programs, and, there’s a lot of needs of these children, but, there’s, not enough help, the slots get filled up the moment the website are opened up for the registrations, and the schools, the programs are the only place where these families can find the help they need for their, young children, and it’s, quit hard on these, families!

Don’t Drag the Reputation of Those with A.D.H.D. Through the Mud, It’s Not They WANT to be on Ritalin

Those with A.D.H.D. often get discriminated, because of the illness, and nobody sees, beyond the bad rep of the “disease”, just how special these people are!  Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

On the news of the cram school in Yilan, dosing children with Ritalin, noted as “poisoning the students”, it’d ached my heart so.

The papers on the 22^nd, the MacKay Memorial Hospital physician, Tseng stated that Ritalin is a prescription medication, that the public should NOT see it as something that’s, poisonous, on the eleventh, the public discussions sections of the paper, a man, Lee wrote, “Should there be a Tighter Regulation on the Medicines Prescribed for A.D.H.D.?”, both are about the matter of medicating of children with A.D.H.D.

these are some famous people with A.D.H.D., found online

Like the case that Dr. Tseng stated, the headline of a certain paper back in 2010 had “The Poisonous Way to Discipline Students: the Afterschool Program Doping Children with the ‘Cocaine for Children’”, it’d caused the disbeliefs of the families with children with A.D.H.D., the medical field, as well as the schools.  That very evening, the assistant director of the N.T.U. Hospital, Dr. Kao (who was then the Taiwanese Medical Association for Children & Adolescent), had a press conference with me, declared, that “having A.D.H.D. is not what anyone wanted, medication is to help reduce the symptoms, the patients, the teachers, and the medication itself, isn’t, guilty of, anything.

What the statement should reiterate was, more issues regarding the education, the medications of the children with, A.D.H.D., does it make it easier for the parents, and the, school instructors?  And, can the rest of the society be more empathetic, more understanding toward the families with these, special needs, children?

Michael Phelps, the Olympic gold medalist had been diagnosed with A.D.H.D., which made him into, an Olympic, legend.  There were those who’d become outstanding in their fields of expertise, for instance, the entrepreneurs, the philanthropists, the theatre performers, in literature, music, and designers, they’d all proven themselves.  “If you can understand it, then, it’s, worth the, time”, yes, they are, attention-deficit, with the special needs, but also, the talents too, not “trouble makers”.  If you can see how pure their, curiosities are, how they can, think outside the boxes, how their creativity is, limitless, and how they never “grow tired”, and if you are willing, do help these children with attention-deficit hyperactivity, become those who will be able to, contribute to the society that we live in, and NOT labeling them, to medicate them.

And so, this is on the needs of the special needs children, they are in need of these, medications, and, people normally, start, discriminating, stereotyping these people with special needs, only because they are on these medications, and that’s, wrong!

They should be noted for their special talents, and not seen as, troublemakers, just because their learning styles are, different than the majority of the population’s.

A Lot of the Special Eds Instructor in the Elementary Schools of Hsinbei City are Surrogate Instructor, Up to Thirty-Six Percent

And this would be, problematic because???  Oh yeah, these instructors are only, temps, and, they don’t get paid equally as the formal instructors, and they’re, teaching, classes with special needs students, how do you think that’s going to, work out, huh???  Off of the Newspapers, translated…

The City Councilmembers Wondered How the Parents Can Feel at Ease?  Called Out to Increase the Quality of Education The Department of Education: Let Us Get the Personnel Stabilized, Then We Will, Increase the Number of Formal Teaching Staff Members

There’s the recorded total of 11,880 special needs student, thirty-percent more than the record from four years ago, but the special needs surrogate instructors are at the rate of thirty-six percent, a total of 333 surrogate instructors on staff, the city councilman questioned, how does this make the parents feel secure?  The Department of Education stated, that the number was mostly made up of substitutes,  because on average, there are more than dozen of retired instructors who’d transferred away out of district or had filed for retirement, that the Department of Education is looking to find the stability of the staffing, then, increase the number of formal instructors next.

The discussions of special needs students had sparked up debate in the council meeting, the councilpersons suggested that the Department of Education allow the formally certified instructors who are currently surrogate instructors to become formally certified, so the special needs students get equal opportunity in education, the mayor, Hou responded, that the special needs instructors are too vital to the system, before school age is the most important period, that he will make sure that the Department of Education make up for the special needs instructors in numbers year by year.

The statistics of the Department of Education showed that from the 8,925 students with special needs in 2017, in four years, the number increased to 11,880 students, every five school years, there’s the increase by 500 special needs students per year.  The number of the  formal special needs instructors in the elementary years is 586, 333 surrogate instructors, and of the 333, eight didn’t get certified to teach the special needs, seventy-seven of the special needs instructors didn’t qualify as school instructors.

The councilwoman, Lee stated in 2018, the Examination Department noted how the Hsinbei City’s special needs formal educators is the lowest of the six major cities across the country, that the city has the highest rate of hiring the surrogate instructors, last year, the rate dropped to 29.6-percent, but the rate of special needs surrogate instructors is still as high as 36.2-percent, the preschool special needs surrogate instructors is at 24.7-percent, and there are only two special needs instructors who had passed certification to teach special needs students.

Lee believed that the number of special needs students are increasing by the years, and the students take a long time to establish that trust with the instructors.  Currently, there are 321 special needs surrogate instructors who are formally qualified to instructor, if they all become formally qualified instructors, then, the special needs students would have higher quality education provided to them, and, from 2017 to date there’s only a fourteen-percent increase of budget in this area, and the city department need to put this as a priority.

The Department of Education stated, that in the last four years, they’d added in 108 classes, with a total of 232 special needs instructors on staff, to have the increasing number of special needs students to get the required care they are in need of, first, they are zooming in to stabilize the personnel resources, then, increasing the formal instructors would come next, based off of the statistics from the end of 2022 the formal instructors had been raised up to 70.4-percent.

The Department of Education stated, to increase the number of the rates of formal instructors, in the future, there will be expanded certification of special needs instructors, and setting up of the specific classes of the special needs students, to swiftly increase the ratio of formal instructors.

And so, because there’s this dire need, for the special needs instructors and yet, there’s, not enough of those who’d been, certified, formally, there’s, this shortage of instructors, and, the city is doing all that it can, to make it work, and, these surrogate instructors should just get their formal teaching certificates if they qualify, to make up for the shortage of staff of instructions.

A Child from the Distant, Stars…

A child from the distant, stars, for some reasons unknown (‘cuz fate’s, way too cruel, a joker, maybe???), her/his “spaceship” had, CRASHED onto the earth…

A child from, the distant, stars, finding it hard, to live down here, on the, planet, knowing, that the far, far away galaxy is, calling her/his name, s/he tried to, talk to those, extra-terrestrial, beings, to connect, but had been, experiencing difficulties, since the start of, preschool or was it, kindergarten.

with great concentration, engaged in the activities that are, considered interesting to no one else but, her own, self…photo from online

And before long, this child from the distant, stars, is outcasted, by those who are, from the, same mold as, “ordinary”, those who are, “normal”…

A child from, the distant stars, will one day, fly up, to the ends of, a distant, galaxy, where s/he will, find others who are, just like her/him, but until, those, nonexistent wings of her/his, start popping out of her/his back, s/he is, tied to, the grounds of this, god damn, planet.

And, no matter how much this child from the, distant stars, longed to fit in, with the rest of, the “general population”, s/he will always feel like, the odd one, out!

My Angel Who’s Developmentally, Delayed

With the availabilities of early intervention programs now set up fully, the resources provided for these families, these children have, an equally bright future, as any other child!  Translated…

Remembered when my youngest daughter was just born, time flew quick, she’s already, in the, fourth grade now, but, still needed someone around to help her with her daily routines, because she’s, developmentally, delayed.

That day, as I first set eyes on her, my baby of about no more than three kilograms, I’d felt moved, but because of jaundice, she was kept in the hospital for observations, and a week later, I was finally able to, take her home.  Her older sister of two years started out in the toddler classes already, with the elders at home watching, I’d, returned back to work.  The seemingly ordinary days, got turned upside down as I took her to get her vaccines.  Her pediatrician noted how she didn’t match up to the growing curves of the average, and, referred her to the rehabilitation centers, then, to the larger hospitals for the assessments, in the end she received a handicap manual.

Then, we’d begun, on this long hard path of, early intervention, thankfully the shop I worked in was more than understanding, allowed me to only work part-time.  Recalled how when we first started in the early intervention programs, the instructor used an assortment of means, to get her to kneel on her knees, to squatting, to finally, using the walker, to help her walk longer.  And, day after day, after day, finally, one afternoon, with her, unsteady legs, she’d, stood, for two whole minutes, all of the physical therapists, and I, we were, very, moved, the hard training, finally, paid, off.

programs with the activities that help these special needs children with acquiring the skills they need…photo from online

That same year, she’d, successfully started in the preschool program that was a part of the local elementary schools.  And the resources she was in need of, all came, one by one, with the special needs assistant, the instructors who looked after her especially, the physical therapy courses……………and every semester, the school officials would have an IEP meeting.  Although, from the start, she was like a soft ball of dough, but now, she is able to speak in simple sentences, can dress herself, and can, feed herself too (although, she may drop the food all over the floors from time to time).

I’d forgotten where I’d read this, “taking a snail out for that walk, you will, see things very, differently”.  The instructor advised that my youngest daughter go into the group, to increase her social skills, that it would help her in her future.  Because of my youngest, I saw, a different scene, the days before us, is long, I want to, walk with her, toward her next, major, milestone.

And so, this, is on the resources that are now, available to the special needs children as well as their, families too, and, now, the parents wouldn’t feel as stressed as they would’ve been, from years before, because the field of special needs is more developed than before, and so, these special needs children can still, have a full experience of life.

Yang’s Using the Innovative Teaching Methods in Physical Education, Using the Experience Education to Help the Student Acquire the Right Values of Life

Getting the entire class involved in designing the activities for all, she’d helped the students gain empathy, and made sure that those students with special needs are also, involved in the physical education courses too, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…

The Hsinbei City Banciao High School instructor, Yang worked hard to innovate the kinesiology courses, set up the specialty instructors’ group with other physical education teachers in the country, to develop the creative, innovative teaching materials.  Through the teamwork, the project-based learning methods, the modules of physical education, incorporating the technologies, helped the students find their passions for the exercises, the sports, and regained their self-confidence, she’d competed in the creative kinesiology lesson plans competitions and won many awards, she had won the Teacher of the Year Award this year for the innovations in teaching physical education. 

the coach, with the students in basketball practice!

photo from online

Other than a homeroom instructor, she’s also, the boys’ basketball coach, the P.E. teacher, also the Kinesiology Science Center’s Seed teacher, gotten involved in the NPDL, the Department of Education’s QPE plans, toured as a guest lecturer, shared her experience, showed her passions in all areas of education.

One of her student, Yen, with cerebral palsy, who’d often, “drove” her electrical wheelchair around the school.  Yang-Yang, the visually impaired student who can see no more than six inches before his face, is quite agile, can always dodge the obstacles right before he’d, bumped into them.  At a substitute for the special needs instructor, she’d gotten the opportunity to work with these students, and, promised to give them, “a P.E. class for you like everybody else!”

First, Yang used the health and leisure activities to help increase the depth of her courses, to give the students who has her for electives a first hand experience of how the handicapped had experienced things differently, and had the students’ input, in coming up with the fitting physical activities for the whole class to get involved with, through the test trials, the amending the procedural, through the team games, to help the students gain empathy, to having the students sit in the wheelchairs, with the patches covering their eyes, to have the students imagine, the challenges the special needs students may face, and how they’re to, get pass the challenges.

Yang told, that the belief of education she wanted to pass to her students is turning the limits to opportunities, through the creativity of the classes, she’d, set up the what seemed to be, impossible P.E. course.

with the assortments of materials she uses, to design the P.E. activities…photo from online

And so, this instructor not only, taught her kids that exercise is important, in staying health, through getting the class involved in designing the activities that the special needs students can also get involved in, she’d taught them about empathy as well, amazing, this woman, in having her students get involved in the hands-on, to teach them about accepting those who are, different than they are, and that is something, that her class will find useful, even outside of the school setting.