Autism Rehabilitation Training Behind The Chaos: No Industry Standards Lack Of Supervision Of Supply And Demand Gap To Be Resolved

Recently, the Guangdong Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Association issued a "solemn statement" on the front page of the official website. According to the statement, some individual lawless personnel on the Internet issued the notice on "online training for autistic rehabilitation professionals and technicians" in the name of the Council, trying to mislead and deceive the public, induce consumption and seriously disrupt social order.

In April 13th, the Guangdong Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Association responsible person told the twenty-first Century economic report that at present, the association has not conducted any online training, and the follow-up training has been notified in other provinces.

It is understood that at present, there are more than 10 million autistic children in China, of whom more than 3 million children. In April 13th, the head of a rehabilitation institution told the economic news reporters in twenty-first Century that autism had no specific effect and could not be completely cured. The improvement of symptoms was mainly based on behavioral intervention, namely rehabilitation training. Rehabilitation teachers played a very important role in the rehabilitation of autism, but there was no uniform standard of rehabilitation practitioners at present, which made the industry level uneven and chaotic.

"Autistic rehabilitation teachers are separated from the national occupational classification. Employees do not have specific binding standards, neither belong to rehabilitation medicine or education category. At the same time, because there is no national uniform training standard, agencies do not know how to apply for targeted rehabilitation units. After the application of this fixed point, patients can get certain subsidies, but at the moment we do not know where to apply. " The person in charge said.

Autism rehabilitation industry chaos

Autism, also known as autism or loneliness disorder, is a typical disease of generalized developmental disorder.

? ? ? Cui Yonghua, director of the Department of psychiatry at Beijing Children's Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, said that autism, as a neurological development disorder, is easily associated with other mental and psychological problems, such as mental retardation, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, tic disorder, impulsive aggression, depressive disorder, etc. its core symptoms are not yet available for treatment, early detection and early intervention. Intervention and education can significantly improve adverse outcomes.

According to data released in 2019 by the Research Institute of autism, China's autism education and rehabilitation industry development report 3, the incidence of autism increased year by year, and the incidence of autism in China reached 0.7%. At present, there are about 10 million people with autism spectrum disorders, including about 2000000 of children under 12 years old. Another industry insider told the twenty-first Century economic news reporter that the industry has conservatively estimated that over 14 children under the age of 3 million are already there.

According to the introduction, autistic patients have very strong plasticity, and the direction of their development is quite different if they are taught or not taught properly. The director of autism rehabilitation agency told the twenty-first Century economic news reporter that rehabilitation plays an important role in the guidance of autistic patients.

? ? ? ? Autistic children are golden rehabilitative before the age of 6. Early detection and early intervention are often undertaken by rehabilitation teachers. Of course, there are some public opinions about "training parents to rehabilitate Sung Kang" recently. The better the professional skills of rehabilitation teachers, the greater the possibility of children's integration.

Han Jibin, the two director of Rehabilitation Department of China Disabled Persons' Federation, said in an interview, "there are no more than 100 doctors who can diagnose autism in the whole country. This is the figure approved by the health planning commission." According to another report, statistics from China Disabled Persons' Federation show that there are 20 thousand autistic rehabilitation practitioners in China, but they need to help more than 3 million of autistic children. Autistic rehabilitation workers and autistic children are 1:143. The huge gap between supply and demand is urgently needed.

Necessity and urgency led to the development of autism rehabilitation industry. However, according to the survey conducted by the economic news reporters in twenty-first Century, many training institutions for autistic rehabilitation teachers are of uneven training level. The training price ranges from 1000 yuan to several thousand yuan, and their learning contents are different. Some of them only understand the theoretical knowledge of autism symptoms, including ABA application behavior analysis, oral muscle training, BNP digital biological nerve repair technology and so on. For training.

Meanwhile, in twenty-first Century, economic news reporters also found that at present, the education level of rehabilitation personnel is low, most of them are kindergarten teachers, and some are housekeeping nannies. Special education and medical related specialties are relatively few.

Only a few subordinate teachers' colleges and tertiary institutions in China have set up special education majors. Their curriculum mainly focuses on deaf, dumb and mentally retarded education. Few autistic education has been established, which has led to many non professional education for teachers with autism rehabilitation.

The director of the autism rehabilitation agency pointed out to the twenty-first Century economic news reporter that rehabilitation effects largely depend on the professional level and ability of rehabilitation personnel. Their rehabilitation personnel should have basic knowledge of medicine, pedagogy and psychology, and master the operation rules of various rehabilitation methods.

The parents of an autistic child told the economic news reporter in twenty-first Century that she had already transferred to 4 autism rehabilitation institutions, but found that every institution's rehabiliter did not achieve the desired effect. "Looking at training methods like circus animals, orphan children lack a sound rehabilitation institution and qualified autistic rehabilitation division."

Who will train and who will issue the certificate?

"How to train qualified autistic rehabilitation teachers?" The answer to this question is even the head of the autism rehabilitation agency, who has been working for many years, is shaking his head.

She told the twenty-first Century business news reporter that there is no national standard to define autism rehabilitation.

"Autism rehabilitation division is not part of the medical profession, nor does it belong to the education industry, nor is it within the scope of the national occupational classification. Because of the embarrassment of identity, the market is mixed up, and all kinds of training are intermingled with each other. There is no clear definition of how to define rehabilitation practitioners. What rehabilitation teachers are in line with the standard of intervention?" The head of the institution said to the twenty-first Century economic news reporter.

As for the training of autistic rehabilitation teachers, there are some embarrassing things because of the unclear definition.

It is understood that in March 25th, the document was published by the Guangdong Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Association and the Guangdong children's autism Rehabilitation Association, the Guangdong Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Association. It issued a notice on the training of professional and technical personnel for autism rehabilitation, and organized to participate in the online training of the IDEA special education basic theory course.

In April 2nd, the official statement issued by the Guangdong Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Association was actually aimed at a child autism rehabilitation platform called "EQI". The responsible person said they tried to mislead and deceive the public, inducing consumption and seriously disturbing the social order.

Statistics show that Wang Wei, founder of &CEO, is the deputy director of the Interactive Media Research Institute of Tsinghua Academy of fine arts and executive member of the China Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Association autism Specialized Committee. Mr en has won two rounds of financing successively.

It is understood that China's understanding of autism began late, until the China Disabled Persons' Federation in 2007 only brought autism rehabilitation to mental rehabilitation, and called for the establishment of provincial autistic rehabilitation training institutions for children, training professionals for autistic children screening, diagnosis and rehabilitation training, and improving management policies and regulations. At present, the standardized management mechanism for rehabilitative bodies such as autism rehabilitation institutions and rehabilitation personnel is not yet mature, nor is there a unified industry access standard and supervisory standard suitable for rehabilitation agencies at all levels.

Wang Xinhui, principal of Xingshi road autistic child rehabilitation center in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, said that when she registered in early years, people in the local civil and educational departments did not know what autism was. After autism rehabilitation institutions were registered in the disabled persons' Federation, but the disabled were limited to the nature and ability, and "want to be incompetent".

At present, there is no professional department in China to supervise and guide the industry. This is also an important reason for the training of autism rehabilitation industry and rehabilitation trainers. "We hope to have a clear and responsible unit, and we hope that there will be formal industry norms to standardize autism rehabilitation training." The head of the institution said to the twenty-first Century economic news reporter.

It is also understood that the state provides subsidies to children diagnosed with autism who are diagnosed by the health department and aged 3-6 years old. The central government provides 12000 yuan rehabilitation training subsidy for each aid object each year. However, how autism rehabilitation institutions receive subsidies is not clear. "There are different regulations in every place. We actually participated in the training of China Disabled Persons' Federation before, but the local did not recognize our qualifications and we could not get the designated places, which had great influence on the patients." The responsible person said.

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