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曾蔭權 對 i-seat 問題的冷淡[Existing i-seat problems]
Dear All i-seat parents,
If you agree with me, please each of you email the sample letter below to Mr Donald Tsang for expressing our concerns on i-seat problem.
I have emailed it to Mr Tsang.
SMITH
To : HKSAR Government (Chief Executive Mr Donald Tsang)
Dear Mr Tsang,
Request for Improvement of IP-service for Special Needed Children in the Nursery
I'm a parent of an autistic child. My kid is attending a whole-day nursery with integrated programme (i.e. so-called IP-service or i-seat). Comparing the HK's IP-service for special needed children against similar services of the western countries, the current IP-service provided by HK Government is running very much behind other international cities.
The deficiency of the current IP-service is summarized as below:
1. The degree and frequency of intervention of various therapists and psychologist are extremely insufficient. For example, the speech therapist (ST) trains each child for just one 30-minute-training in every 2 weeks. The occupational therapist (OT) and the clinical psychologist (CP) visit each IP-nursery once 3 months and once 6 months respectively. In other international cities, special needed children will receive intervention training by ST, OT, PT and/or CP on a daily basis.
2. The existing entry requirement of the i-seat teachers in respect of their educational qualification is too low. Not mentioning i-seat teachers, the existing policy is just to require all serving kindergarten or nursery (KG) principals to have completed Certificate in Early Childhood Education (C(ECE)) by 2005/06, but C(ECE) course is even not a qualification requirement for serving KG teachers. In Year 2003, just about 13% of KG teachers are the holders of certificates or degrees in early childhood education. More worse, not all i-seat teachers are trained on special education. In view of these facts, the professional competency of i-seat teachers is very questionable.
3. For other KG teachers (except i-seat teachers) in the normal nursery that provide IP-service for special needed children, no training on special education topic has been provided to these teachers. But, these KG teachers are also responsible for teaching special needed children with at least spending 50% of the schooling time of these children. Without sufficient training for these teachers, how they can handle with special needed children skillfully.
The above deficiency is obviously a result of insufficient public budget on IP-service. I hope it is not your intangible value point that the need of the special needed children is not an important priority.
According to Clause 42 of HKG Chief Executive’s Year 2005/2006 Policy Address, Mr Tsang said “The Government…to provide extra support to children…with special needs, to ensure they have a proper opportunity to develop”. Sir, may you explain more on what extra support you have provided on IP-service. As a parent, I must tell you that the existing standard and quality of IP-service in general cannot provide a proper opportunity for special needed children to develop.
Parents’ Proposal
May I request you to:
a. enhance professional competency of i-seat teachers by upgrading their educational qualification to the bachelor degree level in relevant subjects like social work and/or psychology etc. In addition, i-seat teachers must have received the specific training on special education;
b. allocate one full-time on-campus ST in each IP-nursery;
c. allocate one full-time on-campus OT in each IP-nursery;
d. increase the frequency of speech therapy and occupational therapy training conducted by professional ST & OT respectively for each children to 30 minutes per day;
e. change the role of i-seat teacher to be a co-ordinator responsible for conducting social group training and communication with the parents.
f. Provide special education training for other KG teachers, of which their nurseries join IP-service.
Autism is a kind of very serious diseases. Autistic child is a patient. They need more intensive training and sufficient intervention both by the professional therapists and their parents at the early stage (before 6 years old). Just like other diseases, we cannot allow a secondary school graduate or a university undergraduate to take up a responsible post for curing a patient, instead of a qualified medical doctor, because of saving public budget. Therefore, to ensure the special needed children have a proper opportunity to develop, the above proposal is strongly needed and required for your implementation.
Social Cost and Cost-Effective Way
The above proposal (or request) will, of course, increase your public budget for the special needed children. But, on the other hand, it increases the job opportunity for ST, OT, PT and CP. The request also shares the heavy psychological and physical pressure of the parents (specially the parent’s travelling time in arranging their kids for off-campus special training in daytime due to insufficiency and deficiency of the existing IP-service).
Moreover, in the viewpoint of society, the social cost is higher if the special needed children are brought up without enough support. When they grow up, the society needs to assign a lot of resources to take care of them. Even the intervention training at early age will cost the society for a certain amount of public resource, it is more cost effective than the resources used to take care them for their whole-life. It is more sensible that the society expends more public fund on these children by offering intervention training to these children at their early age rather than the government offers pieces (but insufficient and discrete) support for their whole-life which may eventually cause a lot for the society.
Pending Donald Tsang’s Action
Mr Tsang, you also said in your website that Hong Kong is truly an Asia's world city - one of the great cosmopolitan cities. As such, I hope that the quality of IP-service for special needed children should reflect Hong Kong the same - an Asia’s world city.
Therefore, please listen to our parents’ voice and consider our request for increasing the quality and standard of the existing IP-service. The time for providing the special needed children a proper opportunity to develop goes by very fast ---- Your prompt action and responses should be quick!
Regards,
Mr & Mrs Smith
cc: 1. Watchdog Early Learning & Development Centre : [email protected]
2. Support Group on Integrated Education : [email protected]
3. LegCo Legislator Mr Cheung Chiu-Hung : [email protected]
4. Special Education Society of HK : [email protected]
5. Heep Hong Parent Association: [email protected]
Notes: This letter is also posted on
http://www.baby-kingdom.com/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=44
bcc:
A group of undisclosed parents of the special needed children & the concerned persons
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發表於 06-5-26 09:54
