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Contributor: Dr Larry Ng [Counselling Service, SDS]

Spread their Wings, Chase their Dreams

Currently, there are around 130 students with Special Education Needs (SEN) at CityU.
The University cares about their needs and is dedicated to helping them develop their potentials and
prepare for their future career.
城大約有130名有特殊教育需要(SEN)的學生，而大學非常關心他們的學習需要，並致力協助
他們發揮潛能，為未來的事業做好準備。

Miss LAM Sio Fan
林小芬

Sio Fan’s university
When Sio Fan was two to three years old, her retina was removed
because of retinoblastoma, and she then became a young girl with visual life at CityU!
impairment.
小芬的城大學園生活！
After completing an associate degree programme in 2018, Sio-Fan was
admitted to an undergraduate programme in linguistics and translation
at CityU. To enhance her learning experiences, the SEN Officer from
Counselling Service notified relevant supporting departments about her
special needs before the academic year started. The academic staff sent
their PowerPoint slides and examination papers in advance to the Hong
Kong Society for the Blind for Braille conversion to support Sio Fan’s daily
lectures and examinations. At CityU, Sio Fan felt very blessed to have met
many enthusiastic fellow students who accompanied her to classrooms
and restaurants. They joined various learning activities together and
enjoyed lots of happy moments.
In 2019/20, Sio Fan changed her major to Linguistics. The new
programme required her to compile codes and find bugs in computer
coding. Locating bugs in a long list of codes was a rather great challenge
to a person with visual impairment. The academic staff at her department
had tried different methods to help her learn coding. Eventually, her
classmates invented an innovative way by using glue to draw the symbols
on paper. When the glue dried, raised braille-like symbols were then
produced. Her classmates could explain those symbols to her accordingly
when she touched them.

Sio Fan’s learning experiences at CityU has enhanced her confidence in
facing the challenges posed to a person with visual impairment while
studying linguistics. She has decided to continue to pursue her dream by
applying for a master’s degree programme to enrich her life and broaden
her horizons and interests.

在小芬兩三歲的時候，她的視網膜因為細胞瘤而被切除，從此便成
了失明人士。

二零一八年，小芬完成了副學士學位課程後，獲城大翻譯及語言
學系錄取。為了讓小芬有更完善的學習經驗，城大心理輔導組的特
殊教育主任在開學前已通知不同支援部門跟進她的特殊學習需要； 相當大的挑戰。學系教職員亦嘗試了不同方法來協助她學習編碼。
而教職員亦提前將課堂材料送到香港盲人協會翻譯成點字，供小芬 最終，她的同學發明了一種創新方法 — 使用膠水在紙上畫符號。
上課和考試之用。 待膠水乾涸後，紙上便會形成類似點字的凸起符號。當小芬觸摸
這些符號時，同學便能向她解釋符號的意思。
小芬亦感恩遇到許多友善的同學，並會結伴到教室和飯堂用膳，
又一起參與不同的課外活動。 小芬在城大的學習經歷，讓她更有信心去刻服學習語言學時所遇到
的困難和挑戰。未來，她決定繼續追求自己的夢想—努力成為一名
小芬於2019/20學年起轉修語言學，而新課程要求她學習編寫程式 碩士生，繼續豐富閱歷，開拓視野和追求興趣。
和查找程式中的錯處。對小芬而言，在云云編碼中查找錯處是一個
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