Children with special needs and youth-at-risk
Lucas Ong
Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Lucas overcame the challenges of ASD with focused assistance from Chaoyang School.
Lucas was diagnosed with mild intellectual disability and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) when he was 2 years old. In 2021, he was admitted into Chaoyang School as a Primary 1 student. Faced with difficulties regulating his emotions, he was enrolled in the Autism Structured Programme (ASP) where the teacher to student ratio is smaller at 4:1.
Over the last two years going through the programme and with the close support of his parents, teachers and therapists, Lucas has made leaps in improvements in his communication skills. Other than being a helpful, friendly and respectful boy who helps with tasks in the classroom such as cleaning the whiteboard, he even enjoys dancing and can teach dance steps to other people by writing the steps down.
Now that Lucas can better express his feelings and thoughts, he was fully integrated into a Primary 2 Integrated Programme for students with mild intellectual disability and ASD, where the teacher to student ratio is 10:1.
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