how?
cos u know what to expect and what how to handle.
did vision screening for specially abled kids at the rainbow centre.
i was scheduled for two days instead of my other clsmates who had one or none.
what do u usually think abt screeenings?
MEANINGFUL, right.
so these two days it was no exception and i brought home smt more personal.
cos i acty befriended my patients. they are my friends not my patients or subjects.
they gave me more respect than the usual patients i see in clinic even though some of them can't even say thank you.
y does ppl who can think, walk and do whatever they please can't even hold a finger to them?
on the first day i was quite upset to see how ppl can behave in the way some kids do.
when they shout and make noise everyone will turn to look at them, as if they are animals in the zoo stretching.
i tht they had lost their ability to think and ctrl their emotions like what normal human can do.
the kids whom i had the deepest impression today was 3 boys- Shu Hao, Keith and Matthew.
Shu Hao was a kid i gave to andrew to handle cos i was too busy.
he's really cute.
he thinks he's the power ranger.
he takes any toy u give, and he is nice to me than he is to andrew. lol, not that andrew is not popular, but its kinda of like u feel a bond with him.(:
like he'll give the toy his playing to me, instead of trying to stop me frm snatching it?
Keith was the boy under eddie who "treat his thomas and friends story book as his head" (well, it jus means invaluable in ed's terms.)
he doesn't read the book but he just kept holding the book and looking at it.
in the end i did manage to distract him and kept the book away from him, thinking that he will listen to us and do his eye tests but he begin to look for it when he realised its missing.
so in the end we still can't test on him. ><
and his teacher looked unpleased with me.
in a stern tone, and an expressionless face he said,
"can u pls return the book to him."
yes, its a full stop not a qn mark.
sighs, was it wrng to play with him?
i didn't think he even looked at me once, but one thing for sure is he loves his book more than anything else n u wonder, whats so interesting in the book.
that explains why i even bother to snatch it away from him as well.
the last kid- Matthew was my favourite kid of the day.
acty i was supposed to help ping han to capture his attention but in the end i played and talked to him.
he likes to draw and writes (sounds familiar, right XD)
he jus keep doodling on the white paper and draws on this white board.
i don't know how old is he but he knows abt keppel, ikea, imm and some geh poh thing.
what is all that doesn't matter, but do u think the sch taught him that?
he mus hav learnt it out of sch, and it subconsciously went into his subconscious mind.
what touched me most was he spelt his name when i only told him to do so ONCE.
means he does understand when we talk to them.
i heard these kids can sense the tone in ur voice?
so if u want them to listen to u, be cheerful and make friends with them!
but morale of the story is they do understand what ppl are trying to tell them- they jus hav some disability, they are not dumb!!
i hope the public don't cast their eyes on these kids as if they are idiots.
pls respect them like ppl, cos they respect u too.
A picture of Matthew's masterpiece
(note: qing, me, ed and andrew polluted it)
