Catering Learning Diversity 2020 – 2021

Catering Learning Diversity

Mr. K C Kot Team Leader of Student Support Team

Mr. S K Yuen

Ms. K M Wan

Ms. X. Dong

Guidance Team and school social workers

Mr. K T Ip and             Ms. S H Chung

Our school has set up a Student Support Team to cater for learner’s diversity and promote mutual respect of individuals’ differences among students and cultivate an inclusive school culture. The team conducts early identification and early intervention for students with special needs and encourages teachers to adopt different teaching approaches to meet the diverse student needs in regular classrooms. In addition, we adopt various accommodation measures to facilitate the student development such as personal coaching and tutorials, various training courses e.g. phonic, social and communication skills, executive functioning, study skills etc., on-site speech therapy,on-site consultation of educational psychologist and clinical psychologist, social adaptation activities, special examination and homework arrangement, and special promotion criteria and even individual educational plan if necessary. For the facilities, we have MAC computer to provide speech-to-text and text-to-speech services to assist students with specific learning difficulties. We also offer mental health talks and activities to all students that help them build up healthier minds and provide them the ways to help the others. In order to equip our teachers to cater for learners’ diversity, our school arranges professional BAT training courses to our teachers and our school has attained most of the requirement. In the meanwhile, understanding and catering for learners’ diversity workshops are offered regularly in teacher development days.

*2018/2019 18.3% teachers with special education training

*2019/2020 31.7.3% teachers with special education training

Mr. Harrison Sit is the educational psychologist responsible to provide school-based educational psychology service to our school in Year 2019/20. He currently works under Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Ho Yuk Ching Educational Psychology Service Centre. He has extensive experience to work with schools in providing support for students with diverse cultural background and educational needs.

Ms. Pamela Chan is the speech therapist of our school at present. She works at the Hong Kong Children and Youth Services and provides speech therapy services to various secondary schools and youth centres. She attained M.A. in Speech Therapy from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, M.A. in Early Childhood Education from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and B.A. (Hons) in English from the Hong Kong Shue Yan University. She provides speech and language services to students with speech and communication difficulties that adversely affected their performance at school and in daily life. These students may exhibit a variety of communication disorders, including language-literacy problems, articulation disorders, and fluency and voice problems. After identifying students at risk, assessment will be conducted and Individual Education Plan (IEP) will be implemented, students will then be monitored on their progress throughout the school year.

Ms. Shirley Lau, a Psychological Service Assistant from TWGHs Ho Yuk Ching Educational Psychology Service Centre. She teaches phonics to primary and secondary students using Orton Gillingham approach in both her centre and different schools under supervision by an Educational Psychologist. OG phonics is a multisensory way of English learning using visual, auditory, and kinesthetic techniques. Students learn to identify different English syllables, blend the syllables and isolate them systematically. Gradually they make improvements to phonological awareness and thereby their ability to read aloud and spell English words.