Simple wishes here, and yet, they’re still a LONG ways away, from comin’ true, from the Newspapers, translated…
“The biggest wish I ever had in life, is just passing my examinations!”, the Department of Education played the short film of special education, asked everybody, to show more cares and concerns for the learning disabled, to become their “translators”, to read the newspapers to them, to help them out, “Don’t stop flying, just because you’d lost one feather!”
The latest statistical measures done by the Department of Education showed that there are a total of 103,175 in the elementary and middle school years for the 2015 schooling semesters, and of them, the learning disabled students make up the majority, at 32,278 individuals, making up almost thirty-percent of the surveyed students.
The Department of Education pointed out, that the intelligence and the behaviors of the learning disabled students are equivalent to that of normal students, but because there is a dysfunction in the learning part of the brains, they may have difficulties in reading or writing, differentiating between the sounds, and they’d started showing this lack of focus, this hyperactivity to their behaviors. And, those who have learning disabilities are often mistaken for being lazy, not concentrating enough, and because of outside perceptions of them, they’d ended up, giving up on themselves.
The assistant director of the Department of Education, Lin said, the singer, Jing-Teng Hsiao, the superstar, Tom Cruise, among others all had reading disabilities, couldn’t comprehend language in the written forms, couldn’t read an essay from top to bottom, had a tough time learning. But, so long as you’re willing to work hard, to overcome your disabilities, you can still, shine.
The Department of Education put the concern for children with learning and emotional disabilities into a series of films, the second of the series, “I Really Do Like You” had its premier yesterday, spoke out for the learning disabled students, the entire film was shot on site at Taoyuan Agricultural High School, with the students and the instructors versions, with the actresses, Hsia, and Ying as the leading roles.
Hsia in the film portrayed the high school student with reading disability, “He”, from when she was growing up, she couldn’t read a word of Chinese, never passed a test in her life, couldn’t even read the simple character for “Wood”. The teacher called her a “piece of wood” as an insult, and since then, she’d, given up on herself, became more and more withdrawn. And, as her classmate invited her to see films in foreign languages, she’d turned them down, making her classmates felt that she’s too proud.
After the homeroom teacher discovered He’s conditions, she’d lent her a helping hand on time, asked the classmates to become a “language translator” for her, had the other students record the texts, and, her examinations are changed into an auditory form too, in the end, it’d helped, He, to fulfill her dreams, to pass her sectional exams.
Hsia said, that recalling her processes of learning, the minority of the students in her class that couldn’t score high enough, is probably due to them having learning disabilities, and they’d feared, that their faults were exposed, so they’d not asked for help from outside. “A bird wouldn’t stop flying after it’d lost one feather!”, she’d called out to everybody, to help the learning disabled.
And so, this, is shedding light, to WHY the kids are NOT doing well in school, and there are, more scenarios than the one mentioned in the film here, and, all it takes is still a little LESS judgment, a little MORE attention, to realize, that these students are NOT awful, that they just can’t understand the material, because of a learning disability that they may have!
Life, the Obstacle Course 