Children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) often need additional support. The two Hong Kong Jockey Club Scholarship winners, who have just been released and are young, both hope to help SEN children and people with different needs in society through traditional Chinese medicine and bowling respectively.
In their eyes, empathy is a must-have for future community leaders; serving the society with empathy and creating a world without walls.
Jockey Club Chairman Chen Nanlu (third from left), officiating guests - Tokyo Paralympic Badminton Men's Singles Bronze Medalist Chen Haoyuan (third from right), Vice Chairman of the Jockey Club Lee Tsz-hou (second from left), Chief Executive Officer Ying Jiabai (second from right), Charity and Zhang Liang, Executive Director of Community Affairs (first from the left), Tan Zhiyuan, Executive Director of Corporate Affairs (first from the right) and representatives of various tertiary institutions took a group photo with the Jockey Club scholars.
Generally, autistic people will have difficulties in communication and social skills, while ADHD is characterized by lack of concentration. Huang Peiting, who is studying in the third year of Bachelor of Chinese Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, was diagnosed in the third grade of primary school with both of these two characteristics. symptoms.
However, her courage to challenge and perseverance has enabled her to overcome different learning and social barriers, and she even achieved 28 points in the best five subjects in the Diploma of Secondary Education Examination.
Determined to be the cause of TCM research SEN
She pointed out: "ADHD made me interested in different subjects, and it was even a little difficult to choose, but before choosing a subject, when I went to Guangzhou to see a doctor, I met a Chinese doctor with superb medical skills, and found that the academics of Chinese medicine were very delicate, so I chose Chinese medicine, and I also I hope the public's perception of people with autism and ADHD will change, so that we can also engage in the work of communicating with people."
In her spare time, Huang Peiting also studied to become a recognized autism tutor, "Compared with ordinary people, I will understand the needs of autistic students better, understand their learning barriers, and can teach them according to the problems they face, and I learned more about autism during my training, and at the same time, I also learned more about myself, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.”
Talking about future plans, she hopes to make good use of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Scholarship for further study and research. One day, she can learn more about the causes and solutions of autism from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, and establish relevant organizations to help more fellow travelers in society.
Looking forward to pitching to affect life
Another scholarship winner, Huang Meiyu, a third-year student of the Department of Civil Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, had a healthy complexion and a bright smile on the day of the interview. It was hard to imagine that she was a serious and quiet student in high school.
She recalled that she had little communication with other players on the pitching team in high school. She once went to Japan for a competition and had to get along with other players for many days. At that time, the coach carefully noticed that she was always alone, so she used Empathy to encourage her to step out of her comfort zone.
"The coach guided me to try to get to know other players with different personalities. Later, I found that I also found something worth learning in them, and I laughed a lot since then." At that time, she found that most of the pitching coaches were from Hong Kong Youth U14, Born in U16, she came to teach the new generation, which prompted her to join the ranks of teaching assistants, hoping to pass on knowledge and skills.
"Seeing myself inspire and influence their lives and growth gives me a sense of success. I hope that I can slowly change other people like a coach who has influenced me deeply."
Huang Meiyu decided to take her heart as her heart and use what she has learned to help more people. In addition to going to special schools to teach children with autism and Down syndrome, she also participated in school activities to learn programming, and developed computer games for special schools. students for learning.
Through the Jockey Club Scholarship, she hopes to participate in more different community activities and learn from leaders at different levels in the society, so as to continue to serve the community.
Huang Peiting has been frail and sick since she was a child, and she often needs to see a doctor, which gradually makes her inseparable from medicine.
Huang Meiyu participates in voluntary work from time to time, which reflects the spirit of the Jockey Club's enthusiastic participation in social affairs.
*Information provided by "Jianbu Life"
