China Youth Daily: sports for disabled children is also a "cure" 


  

  

 

China Youth Daily 

  

  
 




     Asian Paralympic period, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City, special education schools "held" a childish "sub Paralympic Games", including two three-legged, archery hero, super golf, skill, table tennis, horse riding and other obstacles events, special children are all innocent fun.

     This is a special education service corps in Guangzhou, "Xingmeng True Love" unit design projects. Captain Jing Huang told reporters that because special education schools, a large difference in a child's body, some children act very convenient, very convenient to some children act, must take into account when designing the project to make all children can play. The most important thing is hope that through sports, so that children have a healthy body, a better future based on the community. 

     Lv Zhijun told reporters that the special education school social workers, physical exercise will not only allow children to have a good physique, and "treatment" effect.

     Yuexiu District, Guangzhou City, Guangzhou City special education school was opened the first public schools in mental retardation, children with special needs take nine years of compulsory education, where learning is diagnosed in children and adolescents with severe mental retardation, including autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, mental disorders. As with ordinary primary and secondary schools, special education school has a 2-3 week, physical education, including exercise, ball games and the relay and so on. In addition, every Monday to Friday has 50 minutes of a large recess activities, exercises followed by age group activities for children, low-grade children to play horse riding, Bounce and Diushou Juan and other games. Lv Zhijun said: "The horse riding exercise the child's sense of balance can be. And Diushou Juan is a group activity, can help improve children's attention, develop their social skills." High-grade children is based on basketball, soccer and other ball games based.

     Exercise can calm the child's emotions. Lv Zhijun said that autistic children sometimes can not resolve the negative emotions, inarticulate they will catch themselves, playing someone else. Sports can get the kids to divert attention, energy consumption, to smooth some of their emotions.

     "There is expertise to develop," Paralympic sport is also a good seedling excavation. School every Wednesday afternoon to carry out activities of the various interests together a variety of personnel, including sports team badminton, roller skating, football and boccia and other sports. Lv Zhijun said: "Some autistic children to play roller skating, the more focused than the able-bodied people often have to play better." In September of this year, special education schools, 12 children also participated in the fifth, held in Fuzhou, the National Special Olympics Games, participated in both football and roller skating, in which the national football team won the third group, individual technical projects with a gold medal, and skating took six more gold medals.

    Corps special education services in Guangzhou, "Xingmeng love truth" squad to a special education school volunteer service per week, is to carry out the main force of interest classes. Huang Ching-captain, said: "We have a principle, the children can do to try to encourage him to do it themselves, can not do it to help."

    Although he first came to service in 2006, when, facing an autistic child are forever talking to himself for two months, while the other did not respond. Huang Jing said: "Some autistic children like to sit in a corner tear the newspaper, I can sit in a corner tear the newspaper, so I told him he felt the same." Eventually she got the kid's favorite. She also remembered his birthday one year, had a child sent her a card myself, a simple "sister, I love you", she was deeply moved when, "these special children can remember someone's birthday is simply is a miracle. " (Xinhua Lin Jie Han Huan intern)