2004年4月

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Sometimes one thing works out very well with one child, but not at all with another child. We don't give up easily. We don't write off a case as 'hopeless' without trying just one more thing. Some people think this is very bad - to keep hope alive when there is no basis for hope. But we are not looking for a miracle. We are seeking understanding, believing that understanding will lead us to the threshold of more effective ways of helping the person to develop and utilize his capacities more constructively. The inquiry goes on and on and we will continue to seek a way out of the wilderness of our ignorance.

~~ p. 17, Dibs: in search of self, Virginia M. Axline

Graduates from Hong Kong may find it difficult to get into the field overseas because of the relationship of the HK College of Speech Therapist with other overseas colleges.  You know the value or quality of the therapist is judged by the syllabus they had in their training program.  For example, the training can be educationally based or medically based or they use both methods to train the students.  The program in UBC is educationally based, they put a lot of emphasis on linguistics.  Students are not trained in medical avenues and take for example, a graduate from UBC may not know anything or had any experience with feeding or how to help patient with cancer of the throat.  Likewise,
I think HKU is also using an educational model now.