Act for autism: Online training helps special education teachers
- By Cui Can
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E-mail China.org.cn, January 6, 2018
Making progress
Yang Juan is one of the 12,000 autism support teachers who received online training at Ing Care. Although she has a degree in special education from Sichuan Vocational and Technical College, Yang said her college curriculum did not include courses specifically on supporting children with autism.
"The online courses I received from Ing Care really broaden my view on ASD," she said. "These essential methods and teaching skills, such as Applied Behavior Analysis and Discrete Trial Teaching, are useful in the actual teaching, and they also empowered us and helped parents to feel comfortable too."
Yang now teaches at the Beijing Haidian Xiandai Yishu Kindergarten. She said she still remembers the first time Jiahao, a six-year-old non-verbal boy under her care, learned to talk. "When he finally learned how to call 'dad' after trying hundreds or even over a thousand times, I was as excited as his parents, filled with happiness and pride in my heart," she said. "It is the progress that we made together that pushes me to go further."
Yang said that with the help of the professional teaching skills she obtained from Ing Care and its data-based progress evaluation system, she now finds that children with ASD in her class are a lot more settled and calm, and they're engaging in learning a lot more.
"The work we've done has been really beneficial to the children, and the parents feel safer and secure knowing their children are being well looked after," she said.
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