[Anchor’s words] In Xuzhou Children’s Hospital, there is a “Hug Xingbao” volunteer service project composed of professional doctors and rehabilitation therapists. They have been caring for autistic children for 7 years. At first, "helping more autistic children" was just a "call

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In Xuzhou Children’s Hospital, there is a “Hug Xingbao” volunteer service project composed of professional doctors and rehabilitation therapists. They have been caring for autistic children for 7 years.

At first, "helping more autistic children" was just a "call sign" for the medical staff of the Rehabilitation Department of Xuzhou Children's Hospital in Jiangsu Province during their spare time.

As more and more children are treated, the number of children that the hospital can admit is limited. Children who need help and their families must seek new support from outside.

html Over the past 07 years, they have always insisted on caring for autistic children. The work area has also expanded from the hospital to nearby kindergartens and even various communities...

✦The lonely "stars" are silent✦

There is a group of such children, they will They talk but are unwilling to communicate, they can hear but not listen, they can see but turn a blind eye. They like to be immersed in their own world. This is autistic children, and they are called "children of the stars."

Xiao Lin (pseudonym) is such a "child from the stars".

Before coming to Xuzhou Children's Hospital, Xiaolin's mother had taken him to many rehabilitation institutions. From the age of two to four, the mother and son were always on the road.

html After more than 0 years of rehabilitation treatment, I have spent all my money, but I still can’t find a suitable institution and there is no hope.

In fact, Xiaolin's situation is not an exception.

"We must find ways to improve the public's awareness of autism!" The volunteer service team set a goal and carried out loving volunteer services from three modules: "Parent Classroom", "Going to Campus" and "Going to the Community".

Internally, young doctors have begun to seek to learn more advanced rehabilitation technologies and formulate scientific and accurate evaluation standards for parents; externally, the volunteer team has actively organized themed science lectures and interspersed interactive sessions to explain professional knowledge.

Under the organization of the Youth League Committee of the hospital, more and more young volunteers have signed up to participate in volunteer service activities. In the past 7 years, the "Embrace Xingbao" volunteer service team has grown from 8 people at the beginning to 375 people today, including 165 professional volunteers and 210 caring volunteers, covering 18 counties and cities in the Huaihai Economic Zone.

✦"Always help, but always accompany"✦

html On March 23, before the arrival of the 17th "World Autism Day", Xuzhou Children's Hospital, Xuzhou No. 13 Middle School and Xuzhou Quanshan District Disabled Persons' Federation The association and other volunteers organized a social integration spring outing for the "Xingbao" people.

Gong Tiantian said that on the one hand, she wanted to use the activity to help "Xingbao" try to integrate into society; on the other hand, she wanted to guide children of the same age to view "Xingbao" correctly and equally through close contact.

"Treat them equally and then lend a helping hand when needed. This is the respect that 'Xingbao' deserves." Gong Tiantian explained the reason for the event.

During a kindergarten activity, Gong Tiantian paid attention to one detail, "We found that these teachers interacted with the children in a posture of leaning down and looking at each other."

The reaction of the kindergarten teachers left a deep impression on Gong Tiantian, It also gave her new thinking: What kind of volunteer services do "Xingbao" really need?

"The support for Xingbao must be continuously refined and the forms must be more diversified." Gong Tiantian said firmly that this is the next step for the volunteer service project, "For example, introducing a more immersive The melodrama model is conducive to ordinary people's empathy and personal experience of the world of autistic children."

"Just like there are no two identical leaves in the world, the conditions of autistic children are not exactly the same." Gong Tiantian said that there are various rehabilitation treatment methods, but comprehensive rehabilitation treatment is most in line with the development characteristics of children.

"But in the final analysis, our team often provides professional help when necessary, but in daily life, we always retreat behind the scenes and accompany you silently." Gong Tiantian sighed with emotion.

✦Exploring the Integration of Medicine and Education✦

“Let more people pay attention to this group of children, and the ultimate goal is for society to accept ‘Xingbao’."Li Xianda, Secretary of the Youth League Committee of Xuzhou Children's Hospital, realized in an exchange with Gong Tiantian, "The first step for the 'Xingbao' to integrate into normal life in society is to integrate into the kindergarten. ”

To this end, Li Xianda came to Xuzhou Xingguang Second Experimental Kindergarten many times to have in-depth discussions with young caring teachers, and organized them to go to the hospital to experience the "Xingbao" rehabilitation and growth environment.

With the support of the principal and caring teachers , Xuzhou Children's Hospital and Xingguang Second Experimental Kindergarten initiated the establishment of a volunteer alliance for the integration of medicine and education

For some "Xingbao" children of appropriate age, young kindergarten teachers can go to the Xingbao ward of the hospital in advance to learn about these children. Depending on the situation, rehabilitation therapist volunteers can also go to kindergartens to observe normal kindergarten teaching and gain more professional education experience for children.

But in fact, the real challenge in integrating "Xingbao" into society is not the children themselves, but the parents and parents. Family.

"What these parents need is not more advanced intervention techniques, but to help them ease their mood. "To this end, in addition to regular parent science lectures, the "Embrace Xingbao" volunteer project has also added regular home visits, telephone follow-up visits, psychological counseling and other tasks.

✦ Today, helping more autistic children has been provided by Xuzhou Children's Hospital Youth Widely spread among doctors.

As of March 2024, the "Embrace Xingbao" volunteer service project has served 3,460 families, entered 16 kindergartens, 25 communities, and conducted more than 170 online and offline parent classes, reaching 5,500 students. Send care to more than 700 children and help more than 700 children enter the school. ✦

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