Heartspring Visits Changchun, China

From local news channel - Changchun, China:

Subtitle: US Heartspring Visiting Changchun Calls upon "Starry Children"

"Heartspring is a US education institution founded in 1934. It is a privately owned non-profit organization that provides education to children aged 5-21 with special needs. The majority of its students have autism. To exchange education experience, four teachers from Heartspring come visit us in Changchun.

In 2004, Heartspring and Beijing Stars and Rain established a sister-schools relationship, through which free training programs have been provided in many cities in China. Members of this visiting team are key players of the program."

Subtitle: Education Professional from Heartspring (President and CEO, Gary Singleton)

Subtitle: First, we observe these organizations and understand their operations. In the next few days, we will hold a seminar. Our professionals will teach some basic but very important knowledge about autism. Besides, we will provide on-site instructions.

Subtitle: Authority Gives Tremendous Effort to Support Autism Families

Subtitle: The number of autistic children in Changchun city Erdao District has shown an increasing trend over the years. Some parents deny the fact that their children have this illness so they keep their children home. It makes the authority hard to collect actual statistics. Nevertheless, the authority has been giving tremendous effort on supporting the illness relief.

Subtitle: Yang Zhai, Vice President of Changchun City Erdao District Disabled Persons' Federation

Subtitle: We provide free survey and training. The Federation pays for all expenses. The society needs to have better awareness of autism. We hope that parents of autistic children will take this opportunity to learn from the US professionals.

Subtitle: US Heartspring Visiting Changchun Calls upon "Starry Children"

Subtitle: Parent of autistic child

Subtitle: They brought us new ideas in education.

Subtitle: US Heartspring Visiting Changchun Calls upon "Starry Children"

Despite language barrier, communication between the US professionals and the children is not affected. A Chinese teacher said that just a minor posture showed the difference of the professionals.

Subtitle: Teacher with Changchun City New Intellectual Training School for Children with Special Needs

Subtitle: They are very friendly. When they communicate with children they always squat down or kneel down to stay at the children's eye level. This is something we need to learn.

Subtitle: Meeting with US Professionals on the 26th-28th

From August 26th to 28th, the US professionals will provide on-site instructions to parents and teachers of autistic children. They will teach advanced education theories about autism training such as behaviorism. This is a precious opportunity. Contact us if you are interested in the learning session. We are hosting an audience of 100 at the live learning session. Autism doesn't have to be scary. With patience and proper directions, we believe in miracles. Let's help these starry children come back to our world.




Subtitle: Mo Zhang and Liang Zhang report

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• heartspring
• autism
• changchun
• china
• starry
• children
• stars
• and
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