Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Walk with Love Project
Our mission
- Provide early intervention and inter-disciplinary training services for children with special needs to enhance their potential and strengthen their all-round development ;
- Support parents and caregivers by providing counselling and education to increase their confidence in nourishing children with special needs, and to strengthen their supporting roles in family;
- Promote community education to construct an inclusive society with equality and care
Who we serve
- Children who are attending at the participating KGs or KG-cum-CCCs and are on the waiting list for SWD-subvented pre-school rehabilitation services;
- Children who are on the waiting list for assessment from Child Assessment Centres under Department of Health or Hospital Authority (when our service team has service quota to provide services for these children but the number of these children served must not be more than 10% of the total number of children served by our team);
- Teachers/child care workers and parents/carers of such children.
Service Objectives
Our multi-disciplinary service team provides professional on-site training for students with special needs and gives professional advice to teachers, includingconsultation and professional training, in assisting them to offer quality care for students with special needs. We also provide support to parents in raising their children with a positive attitude and effective skills.
Service Scope
Training for Children
- Understanding the developmental progress of children through comprehensive assessments conducted by therapists;
- Adopting tailor-made training plans by our multi-disciplinary team, based on children’s ability in different aspects;
- Providing on-site/centre-based individual and group training for children
- Conducting regular meetings to evaluate training effectiveness.
Support for Teachers
- Providing on-site consultation for teachers;
- Providing diversified training programs, including workshops, seminars, group trainings and other activities.
Support for Parents/Carers
- Providing consultation for parents to enhance their skills in raising children with special needs;
- Providing diversified training programs, including workshops, seminars, group trainings and other activities.
Service Users
On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services (OPRS)
1. Children under six attending the KGs/KG-cum-CCCs participating in OPRS who are:
assessed by paediatricians, clinical/educational psychologists or other qualified professionals as recognized by SWD, referrals can be made by social workers of integrated family service centres, medical social services units or designated service units under Central Referral System for Rehabilitation Services‒Subsystem for Disabled Pre-schoolers (CRSRehabPS) for application for pre-school rehabilitation services.
2. Teachers/child care workers and parents/carers of such children.
Tier 1 Support Services
- Children under six attending the KGs or KG-cum-CCCs participating in OPRS who are:
• awaiting assessment by Child Assessment Centres (CACs), or
• assessed by CACs to have borderline developmental problem, or
• assessed by the OPRS team as having special needs with reference to the “Child Observation Checklist” (COC). - Teachers/child care workers and parents/carers of such children.
Service Modes
A Multi-disciplinary Team
Our service team comprises occupational therapists, speech therapists, physiotherapists, clinical/ educational psychologists, registered social workers and special child care workers. The team works together to make tailor-made individual training plans for children.
Case Coordination
Special child care worker, being the case manager, follows the training progress of children and formulates individual training plans.
On-site Support Services
Therapists and special child care workers provide on-site training for children, together with classroom management strategies, to strengthen support for children at school.
Centre-based Support Services
In order to enhance the effectiveness of training, we provide centre-based professional training facilities to address the training needs of children.
Mobile Training Centre
A mobile training shuttle with professional equipment would travel between KGs or KG-cum-CCCs around all districts in Hong Kong. Students with special needs can receive training in a soundproof space. Our mobile training shuttle has two independent training rooms and various professional equipment, such as fine motor training aids, speech therapy training materials and social skills training materials, etc. Therapists can therefore provide individualized treatment programs with the use of equipment for children with special needs.
Application Procedures
On-site Pre-school Rehabilitation Services (OPRS)
Referrals can be made by social workers or staff of rehabilitation service units to the Central Referral System for Rehabilitation Services of the SWD.
Tier 1 Support Services Parents/carers may consult the teachers or other professions (e.g. social workers in pre-primary institutions) of participating KGs/KG-cum-CCCs or approach our OPRS Project Team directly for enquiry
Tier 1 Support Services
Parents/carers may consult the teachers or other professions (e.g. social workers in pre-primary institutions) of participating KGs/KG-cum-CCCs or approach our OPRS Project Team directly for enquiry.
Withdrawal
Parents who would like to withdraw from our service, will have to notify our service team in written form at least one month in advance. Termination of our service/ referral to other services will be made under the following circumstances (whichever is earlier):
• promoted to mainstream primary school (including local and/ or non-local syllabus);
• ineligible for service due to reached age of 6 on/ before 1 September of the year as stipulated in RSRehab-PS Manual of Procedures;
• tier movement to Waitee/ or changed service to EETC/ IP/ SCCC/ RSCCC;
• changed to other KGs/ KG-cum-CCCs with or without OPRS
• tier movement to Tier 1 (with progress from OPRS);
• achieved OPRS training plan without CRSRehab-PS service need;
• self-withdrawal by parent/ guardian;
• away from Hong Kong;
• other reasons.
Service Fee
Our service is subvented by the Social Welfare Department (SWD), and hence free of charge.
Service users