Dedicated to the Early Intervention Programs for Fifteen Years on End…He’d Helped a Child Diagnosed with Autism Call Out “Grandma”

The dedication that this man made to his own job, is truly, amazing, from the Newspapers, translated…

The occupational therapist, Zhong-Yi Lu had poured his heart and soul into the field of early intervention program for fifteen years, recently, he’d integrated thirteen clinics to push forth the early intervention programs, gotten the affirmation of the city by winning the awards yesterday. He said, families with a developmentally slow or an autistic child, the pressures on the mothers are the greatest, that he’d helped guide the whole family to get involved with the treatment processes, and the child makes more progresses as s/he ages.

from online…

Lu said, because of the decline in birthrate, plus the parents become overly protective, the toddlers wouldn’t be exposed to enough outdoors activities, and they’d not gotten the stimulations they’d needed, causing bad coordination and A.D.H.D. symptoms, based off of estimates, every one hundred toddler or young children, there were, about five to six who’d needed the early intervention treatments, but, so long as the treatments start early, the child can have full potentials.

“Early interventions, requires the involvement of the whole family!”, Lu said, with a developmentally delayed child at home, the mother often faces the pressures of caretaking along with the family members’ misunderstandings, two years ago, he’d had a client who’d secretly taken her three-year-old son to consult him, after diagnosis, the child shows signs of autism, but one day, the grandmother of this young child came to the clinic and confronted him, “My grandchild doesn’t have problems, why would he need to be treated?”

At the moment, Lu asked the grandmother to wait by the side, and, slowly, had the child with autism call out, “Grandma”, and, the grandmother cried, then and there, stated, “Finally, I’d heard my grandson call me!”, and ever since, it was, the grandmother who took the child for his sessions, and now, this child with autism can sing, and can differentiate between the shapes and the colors.

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Lu advised, in order to prevent the further developments of developmental problems, the parents need to accompany their children more, that they can interact with their young children through reading books, playing blocks, putting jigsaw puzzles together, to increase the parent-child interactions. To take the children outdoor more often, to set up small support groups with other parents with children of the same age, so the children can learn to compromise, to share, in the social interactions in life.

So, early intervention is the way, to help improve the problems brought on developmental delays in young children, but, there’s, just, too many taboos surrounding the subject, because NO parent wants to admit, that my child needs help, and, because parents are too proud, that, is why their children may not get the help that they’d needed in time.