Cheung Yuk Yi

Being Inclusion Ambassador, I had the most meaningful learning experience at CityU.

Inclusion seems to be a common word that can be understood easily. However, instead of reading or spelling this word, experiencing the virtue behind it in first-person is the best way to get the true meaning of it. And becoming an IA is a great opportunity that allows us to have personal experience towards various educational barriers.

Please imagine, what would you do if there is a day you wake up and see only darkness in front of your eyes, or are only sensitive to glare, and are not being able to look at anything in this world? Blaming? Losing yourself? Or to face the problem bravely? One of the events I participated as an IA was called “Dialogue in the darkn”. This was a tour and most of the tour guides were having vision deficiency to a certain degree. This tour required us to cover our eyes and engage in different daily activities such as watching film in a cinema, going on a ferry and buying foods in a wet market. Despite these being treated by us as easy jobs or everyday routine, each of them could be challenging and became complicated scenes in the situation of losing vision, and that made me truly realised the difficulties and needs that visually impaired people encountered in everyday life. Since then, this experience taught me to assist them in the best way from their point of view instead of helping them as we want and cause further troubles to the receivers.

In fact, ever since we were little, we had been taught about offering helps to people in needs. Yet, had any of you thought that the receivers might feel stressed due to our excessive concern? One important truth that I learned as an IA was that actually students with special educational needs (SEN)are no different from us, they are just possessing unique characteristic as we did.