China News Service, Changchun, July 1 (Tan Weiqi) "Teacher wants to massage your lips, don't be afraid." A child sat on a chair in the rehabilitation classroom. Chen Yang leaned slightly, massaging his mouth. muscle.
At the Jilin Provincial Disabled Rehabilitation Center, there is a group of "post-95" special children's rehabilitation teachers who provide rehabilitation training for children suffering from cerebral palsy, autism and other diseases. Chen Yang is one of them.
According to Chen Yang, her main job is to help children with pronunciation impairments in rehabilitation training.
"For example, some children's mouth muscles are not very good, or their tongues are not flexible, and they need to be targeted for training."
"Some children have poor cognition and cannot cooperate well during training." Chen Yang said, such as simple clapping movements, she often has to teach dozens of times before the children can understand and complete the movements. This process is very laborious. She needs patience, love and tolerance.
Chen Yang massaging the mouth muscles of the child. Photo by Tan Weiqi
"I want to do my part to help more children return to school and society." Chen Yang said that she had an internship in a children's hospital before graduation. After seeing many disabled children in need, she decided to graduate. Later, he engaged in rehabilitation work and provided scientific training for children.
Chen Yang told reporters that when she first graduated, she thought she was also a child, but after contacting these children, she felt her own growth and the sense of accomplishment that this career brought her.
"Whenever parents tell me that their children have made progress, it is my happiest moment."
Zhang Yu, who is also a "post-95" like Chen Yang, helped a child with hemiplegia on the left side of his body do rehabilitation training in another classroom.
The reporter saw that Zhang Yu prepared multiple rehabilitation training sessions for the children, including building block games that can be used to exercise left-hand coordination, sandbag games to exercise lower limb stability, etc., to guide the children to perform physical training.
Zhang Yu introduced that through training of muscle strength and wrist strength, the coordination ability of children can be restored.
"During this process, some children are emotionally unstable and need to be patiently taught and accompanied."
Zhang Yu said that rehabilitation practitioners for special children must have a sense of mission and responsibility, so as to help children get a new life.
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