let me take you into the first job I
have played years ago my first job as a
teacher in a school for children with
severe learning difficulties in the City
of London I had all sorts of children
those with Down syndrome ADHD autism and
all sorts of developmental disabilities
right so imagine me in this job as you
can see I’m a very small Chinese woman
and teaching in in London I have a lot
of children who are English and European
so you straightaway tell that I’m
probably you’re all towering over me
especially when I teach in the secondary
section of the school so when I go on
any outings and you really have to do a
big help
it will call me along as one of the
students and it’s one extra or when they
say um let’s teacher please set up I’ll
go I am standing up so cos it’s me
bringing you into a day in history of my
life in the playground when I was on
duty one morning as I was standing there
scanning the entire playground from the
field to the court I see all the
children playing and they were running
about to and fro throwing balls at each
other running around and stepping on
atomic and I saw this girl she was
chasing somebody and she bang into a
pillar I remember I walk into school
people with severe learning difficulties
but they do have different ways of
interpreting the world so this one young
lady was from my class so instinctively
as a class teacher I ran up in love with
a worried look on my face
she turned her on and looked at me
regain I contact and she was bleeding on
the lips so what did I do
as a teacher I went up to her and she
saw the worried look on my face and she
must be thinking wow whatever she’s
gonna do to me she’s gonna
more pain than I’m really having so my
cheek when I came close to her she
grabbed my hair and pulled in the
defense so I was my hair was getting
pull on one side and on the other side
with the three ground came another girl
and she is somebody who is known to the
hold for the helpful as well and she
likes the full hair of people that she
my favorite people to get attention so
that was my modus operandi so she sought
Barbie that this teacher of mine I was a
favorite teacher at that time get pull I
can’t get pull by somebody who is not
herself so she came from the other side
of the playground got close to me and
she was like this and she pulled the
other side of my hair so can you imagine
me though that Bob Sikes on the heavy
went by this time the whole playground
at stop playing to watch this unusual
spectacle and thankfully there were some
teachers over there much bigger size
that I am and it came and it tickle and
they tackle these two girls and they
rescued me after what felt like forever
so that was 20 years ago and today I
work as a developmental and educational
psychologists and office block next door
to MC KL now I still work with people
with different abilities well enable
differently and I left my job I really
do so you asked me why do I choose a job
to what these people are different and
who is challenging now I agree that not
everyone who want to work in a job like
this so I think about why do I choose a
job like this maybe somewhere in my
childhood in my growing up days I felt
vulnerable and I could identify with
people who are vulnerable if you thought
have you felt being different from
others have you felt being left up and
you can’t fit in no I don’t think
everyone will choose the part that I’ve
chosen but I’ve come from a long way
from the first school that I work in and
I’ve come to power I find out that
actually what we call special needs is
only one end of the continuum and on
this one end yes we are we know people
who are vulnerable who are possibly
obviously meeting for intensive support
all their life but on the other end we
have got the more moderate and mild and
the continuum goes on to quite normal
actually and you may just be people who
are able to stand on your own two feet
but they are just disabled by the
society that we live in because I really
think that ability and disability it’s
really two sides of the same coin
it depends where you are and who you’re
with so for example if you happen to go
to a foreign country to remotely
Malaysians going to Japan or France
where you don’t speak that language and
they don’t speak a lot of English you’re
fine that you are incapacitated and
you’re lost and you feel like a doubt
yeah so the W WH o the will help
organisation tells us that up to 15% of
people around the world live in some
kind of disability so if there are 100
of you here there’ll be 15 of you here
who may be different or who have some
kind of difference and enabling that is
different from the rest of us right I
would like to see it and differently
being able rather than being
that’s what I like to see it ends and
I’m willing to bet that we are more
sympathetic to people who are visually
visibly as a special need that we are of
those who look typical but maybe are
losing order right
for instance if somebody with a broken
leg come to you you may think that if
they’re clumsy they’re not into you that
is because of their broken leg
but if somebody’s a little bit socially
strange or odd they have got interest is
different from you for instance or they
may talk out of turns maybe have do
things a little bit slower then I think
you may not be so patience and
so as I was saying earlier I think you
are disabled by the society you live it
for instance in this picture of these
two people on a wheelchair they do not
have access because of stacking we live
in brick fields oh we are in brick
fields and we know that the deaf
deaf-blind Center is daenerys every see
a lot of people won’t be julieandpete
around now they are disabled by maybe a
pothole the pavements are wrought work
right that becomes a disability to them
because of the environment that they
live in if a world is turned upside down
and all books are published in Braille
then it’s possible that you and I have
got a reading disability so I think it’s
a matter of our perspective of how we
look at things so in my career I meet a
lot of people there’s some people who
try to fit in but others around them I’m
not ready to embrace them
yeah dose of them who can’t fit in
because of the uniqueness and everybody
people around them are not ready to
embrace that uniqueness and therefore
they are barriers to day existence but
let’s face it right birds of a feather
like to flock together we would like to
be with people who are similar to us who
think the same way or do the same things
and when somebody is different come in a
little bit and it’s difficult really
isn’t it because when we need to embrace
somebody was different from us we always
have to make room make space we may have
to shuffle a little and change a little
of the way we thing that we do things to
so obstacles in life don’t always say
the same we like the way we are but
sometimes the oddball may actually be
the people that we know they may be our
children they may be ourselves because
circumstances change in life two years
ago I mean in my office I had a mom come
in and she was complaining to me about
the person who was sitting at a
reception now he happens to be somebody
with a social and communication
difficulty and so the mom was saying to
me how annoyed she was that this person
was so poor communication understanding
her needs and she said maybe I shouldn’t
have somebody like that working in my
office because he’s incompetent
ironically she came to talk to me about
a child who has difficulties getting
along socially and having difficulties
with his peers and I thought wow you
know if only you could see what you know
what you’re talking about similarly the
same situation that your child is in he
may be the person that is sitting at the
front desk one day and people
complaining about him and we’re not
giving him a chance so the odds and will
be change yeah so inclusion in a
nutshell it’s really about not expecting
people to fit into our mold of what we
expect of people but to accept them for
who they are embracing the uniqueness
and making adopt accommodations in the
so would end with this story some of you
may have heard this story before
it’s a story by Loren eiseley about the
south east or so one day a jogger was
walking along the beach and he was
dismayed to see thousands of starfish on
the seashore that was brought in by a
storm and she was talking along the
beach he saw in a distance a young man
throwing something back into the sea as
he got closer he saw this young man bend
over pick up and starfish I throw it
into the sea I got to the young men he
was doing the same thing with another
starfish and so he said to these young
men what can you do this something you
can do it look at the number of starfish
on the shore you can make a difference
the young man looked at him pick up a
starfish and as she was throwing back
into the sea he said no but I made a
difference to that one starfish so what
a message I would like to share your
today is everyone is of worth however
different you think they are to you
every life is valuable and we shouldn’t
look at people we should look beyond
today’s theme is beyond today we should
look beyond what society thinks is
successful in life the ones that are
good in their great eloquent in speech
the ones who are beautiful the ones who
make a lot of money in life that’s what
society things in success do we look
beyond that that everyone is valuable
so I made my decision
to make a difference in whatever small
when you do something to include
somebody in your life however different
or difficult they may be also your life
you learn empathy you learn to put
others before yourself and ignorantly
what you do is you become a person that
is better and looking your own flaws and
you are able to then face the storms in
your life after so here’s my starfish are you ready
have played years ago my first job as a
teacher in a school for children with
severe learning difficulties in the City
of London I had all sorts of children
those with Down syndrome ADHD autism and
all sorts of developmental disabilities
right so imagine me in this job as you
can see I’m a very small Chinese woman
and teaching in in London I have a lot
of children who are English and European
so you straightaway tell that I’m
probably you’re all towering over me
especially when I teach in the secondary
section of the school so when I go on
any outings and you really have to do a
big help
it will call me along as one of the
students and it’s one extra or when they
say um let’s teacher please set up I’ll
go I am standing up so cos it’s me
bringing you into a day in history of my
life in the playground when I was on
duty one morning as I was standing there
scanning the entire playground from the
field to the court I see all the
children playing and they were running
about to and fro throwing balls at each
other running around and stepping on
atomic and I saw this girl she was
chasing somebody and she bang into a
pillar I remember I walk into school
people with severe learning difficulties
but they do have different ways of
interpreting the world so this one young
lady was from my class so instinctively
as a class teacher I ran up in love with
a worried look on my face
she turned her on and looked at me
regain I contact and she was bleeding on
the lips so what did I do
as a teacher I went up to her and she
saw the worried look on my face and she
must be thinking wow whatever she’s
gonna do to me she’s gonna
more pain than I’m really having so my
cheek when I came close to her she
grabbed my hair and pulled in the
defense so I was my hair was getting
pull on one side and on the other side
with the three ground came another girl
and she is somebody who is known to the
hold for the helpful as well and she
likes the full hair of people that she
my favorite people to get attention so
that was my modus operandi so she sought
Barbie that this teacher of mine I was a
favorite teacher at that time get pull I
can’t get pull by somebody who is not
herself so she came from the other side
of the playground got close to me and
she was like this and she pulled the
other side of my hair so can you imagine
me though that Bob Sikes on the heavy
went by this time the whole playground
at stop playing to watch this unusual
spectacle and thankfully there were some
teachers over there much bigger size
that I am and it came and it tickle and
they tackle these two girls and they
rescued me after what felt like forever
so that was 20 years ago and today I
work as a developmental and educational
psychologists and office block next door
to MC KL now I still work with people
with different abilities well enable
differently and I left my job I really
do so you asked me why do I choose a job
to what these people are different and
who is challenging now I agree that not
everyone who want to work in a job like
this so I think about why do I choose a
job like this maybe somewhere in my
childhood in my growing up days I felt
vulnerable and I could identify with
people who are vulnerable if you thought
have you felt being different from
others have you felt being left up and
you can’t fit in no I don’t think
everyone will choose the part that I’ve
chosen but I’ve come from a long way
from the first school that I work in and
I’ve come to power I find out that
actually what we call special needs is
only one end of the continuum and on
this one end yes we are we know people
who are vulnerable who are possibly
obviously meeting for intensive support
all their life but on the other end we
have got the more moderate and mild and
the continuum goes on to quite normal
actually and you may just be people who
are able to stand on your own two feet
but they are just disabled by the
society that we live in because I really
think that ability and disability it’s
really two sides of the same coin
it depends where you are and who you’re
with so for example if you happen to go
to a foreign country to remotely
Malaysians going to Japan or France
where you don’t speak that language and
they don’t speak a lot of English you’re
fine that you are incapacitated and
you’re lost and you feel like a doubt
yeah so the W WH o the will help
organisation tells us that up to 15% of
people around the world live in some
kind of disability so if there are 100
of you here there’ll be 15 of you here
who may be different or who have some
kind of difference and enabling that is
different from the rest of us right I
would like to see it and differently
being able rather than being
that’s what I like to see it ends and
I’m willing to bet that we are more
sympathetic to people who are visually
visibly as a special need that we are of
those who look typical but maybe are
losing order right
for instance if somebody with a broken
leg come to you you may think that if
they’re clumsy they’re not into you that
is because of their broken leg
but if somebody’s a little bit socially
strange or odd they have got interest is
different from you for instance or they
may talk out of turns maybe have do
things a little bit slower then I think
you may not be so patience and
so as I was saying earlier I think you
are disabled by the society you live it
for instance in this picture of these
two people on a wheelchair they do not
have access because of stacking we live
in brick fields oh we are in brick
fields and we know that the deaf
deaf-blind Center is daenerys every see
a lot of people won’t be julieandpete
around now they are disabled by maybe a
pothole the pavements are wrought work
right that becomes a disability to them
because of the environment that they
live in if a world is turned upside down
and all books are published in Braille
then it’s possible that you and I have
got a reading disability so I think it’s
a matter of our perspective of how we
look at things so in my career I meet a
lot of people there’s some people who
try to fit in but others around them I’m
not ready to embrace them
yeah dose of them who can’t fit in
because of the uniqueness and everybody
people around them are not ready to
embrace that uniqueness and therefore
they are barriers to day existence but
let’s face it right birds of a feather
like to flock together we would like to
be with people who are similar to us who
think the same way or do the same things
and when somebody is different come in a
little bit and it’s difficult really
isn’t it because when we need to embrace
somebody was different from us we always
have to make room make space we may have
to shuffle a little and change a little
of the way we thing that we do things to
so obstacles in life don’t always say
the same we like the way we are but
sometimes the oddball may actually be
the people that we know they may be our
children they may be ourselves because
circumstances change in life two years
ago I mean in my office I had a mom come
in and she was complaining to me about
the person who was sitting at a
reception now he happens to be somebody
with a social and communication
difficulty and so the mom was saying to
me how annoyed she was that this person
was so poor communication understanding
her needs and she said maybe I shouldn’t
have somebody like that working in my
office because he’s incompetent
ironically she came to talk to me about
a child who has difficulties getting
along socially and having difficulties
with his peers and I thought wow you
know if only you could see what you know
what you’re talking about similarly the
same situation that your child is in he
may be the person that is sitting at the
front desk one day and people
complaining about him and we’re not
giving him a chance so the odds and will
be change yeah so inclusion in a
nutshell it’s really about not expecting
people to fit into our mold of what we
expect of people but to accept them for
who they are embracing the uniqueness
and making adopt accommodations in the
so would end with this story some of you
may have heard this story before
it’s a story by Loren eiseley about the
south east or so one day a jogger was
walking along the beach and he was
dismayed to see thousands of starfish on
the seashore that was brought in by a
storm and she was talking along the
beach he saw in a distance a young man
throwing something back into the sea as
he got closer he saw this young man bend
over pick up and starfish I throw it
into the sea I got to the young men he
was doing the same thing with another
starfish and so he said to these young
men what can you do this something you
can do it look at the number of starfish
on the shore you can make a difference
the young man looked at him pick up a
starfish and as she was throwing back
into the sea he said no but I made a
difference to that one starfish so what
a message I would like to share your
today is everyone is of worth however
different you think they are to you
every life is valuable and we shouldn’t
look at people we should look beyond
today’s theme is beyond today we should
look beyond what society thinks is
successful in life the ones that are
good in their great eloquent in speech
the ones who are beautiful the ones who
make a lot of money in life that’s what
society things in success do we look
beyond that that everyone is valuable
so I made my decision
to make a difference in whatever small
when you do something to include
somebody in your life however different
or difficult they may be also your life
you learn empathy you learn to put
others before yourself and ignorantly
what you do is you become a person that
is better and looking your own flaws and
you are able to then face the storms in
your life after so here’s my starfish are you ready
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