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New crown pneumonia|Apply for funding under the SEN schoolchildren's epidemic

2021-12-06T04:16:27.026Z


The new crown pneumonia epidemic has lasted for more than a year, and students with special student needs (SEN) and their parents are facing many difficulties in learning, and it is even harder to keep up with other students in their learning progress. Heep Hong Society provides assessment and assistance for SEN students


The new crown pneumonia epidemic has lasted for more than a year, and students with special student needs (SEN) and their parents are facing many difficulties in learning, and it is even harder to keep up with other students in their learning progress.

Heep Hong Society provides assessment, guidance and training for SEN students, and also develops teaching materials to give SEN students the most suitable teaching methods.


The "Heep Hong Society Children and Youth Training Fund" subsidizes SEN and students with financial difficulties to conduct assessments or training. The number of applications from more than 50 families in one month during the epidemic has doubled.

In order to continue the service, Heep Hong Society organized the first online "Heep Hong GOAL Flying Games" to raise funds for the fund, so that SEN students can continue to receive help from its affiliates.


Chen Qihua, general manager of the Heep Hong Society Youth Project, introduced special teaching materials for SEN students so that they can get suitable learning methods even during the epidemic.

(Photo by Ma Weijie)

Last year, new textbooks were conceived for students to learn under the epidemic

The Health Association provides different assessments, counselling and training for SEN students, including arranging assessments by psychologists, as well as physical, speech and occupational therapy, etc. It will also tailor-made suitable teaching materials for SEN students to best suit SEN students Way to provide them with education.

Chen Qihua, general manager of the Green Onion Project of the Heep Hong Society, said that at the beginning of the epidemic, everyone was worried that SEN students would not be able to adapt to their studies at home. In March of last year, they conceived the new education money with the team. The production was completed in April and shipped in June. The purpose is to allow SEN students to get suitable learning methods even in the epidemic.

7-year-old Tong Jinjin (pseudonym) has language barriers and limited intelligence. He can write "mirror characters" and write inverted fonts.

(Photo by Ma Weijie)

Helping students to keep up with the progress of writing "Mirror Words"

SEN student Jinjin (pseudonym) is seven years old and is studying in Primary One. After being accused by the teacher of poor learning ability, he went to the health center to see a nurse, but he was judged to be a normal student. Later, he was diagnosed as having a language disorder by the psychologist of the Heep Hong Society. And limited intelligence, can write "mirror characters" and write the font upside down.

Jinjin participated in the listening, speaking, reading and writing group of the Heep Hong Society, learning to catch up with children of the same age, and even more literate than them.

Chee Wah Chan explained that the listening, speaking, reading and writing group teaches SEN students with special techniques, such as multi-sensory recognition of characters and visualizing the characters to arouse their interest and strengthen their memory.

Jinjin (pseudonym) participated in the listening, speaking, reading and writing group of Heep Hong Society, and was able to catch up with children of the same age in learning.

(Photo by Ma Weijie)

The training fund grants 500,000 yuan a month

The "Heep Hong Society Children and Youth Training Fund" subsidizes SEN and students with financial difficulties to conduct assessment or training.

Chen Qihua also mentioned that since the beginning of the epidemic, many schools have switched to online teaching, which has made it even more difficult for SEN students to learn. He pointed out that many students "have mobile phones to go to class" and that they lack teacher supervision, which makes it easy for them to share. Heart, it is difficult to catch up with the competition of ordinary schools.

During the period of the epidemic, the average number of monthly subsidies doubled compared to before the epidemic. In one month, more than 500,000 yuan was granted to more than 50 families to meet their training expenses. Chen Qihua described the fund reserves as "fallen" during this period. "Water", the application must be tightened in July due to desperation.

In order to continue the subsidy service, Heep Hong Society organized the "Heep Hong GOAL Flying Sport" to raise funds for the "Heep Hong Society Children and Youth Training Fund" by means of online sports games, and encourage everyone to exercise at home. Participants choose by themselves For sports, upload the records to the event system to help fundraising.

Chen Qihua said that she originally planned to hold an offline sports meeting, but considering the impact of the epidemic, many offline events were forced to cancel at any time, so the idea of ​​an online charity sports meeting.

Since November 15th, more than 300 families have participated in the event, and participants will also receive a player pack.

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Source: hk1

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