2022年12月13日 VOA慢速英語(yǔ)：北京音樂(lè)學(xué)校幫助自閉癥學(xué)生

 



Zu Wenbao is a 23-year-old Chinese villager with autism. He grew up in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang.
祖文寶是一名患有自閉癥的23歲中國(guó)村民。他在東北的黑龍江省長(zhǎng)大。
 
Autism is a developmental disability that makes it hard for some people to talk with others or learn social skills.
自閉癥是一種發(fā)育障礙，使一些人難以與他人交談或?qū)W習(xí)社交技能。
 
That means it can be hard for a person with autism to find a job or make friends. There are about 14 million people in China with the disorder. But it is not well known and there is not much support for people like Zu. He is nonverbal, which means he does not speak.
這意味著它自閉癥患者可能很難找到工作或交朋友。中國(guó)大約有1400萬(wàn)人患有這種疾病。但知名度不高，像祖這樣的人支持度不高。他是非語(yǔ)言的，這意味著他不會(huì)說(shuō)話(huà)。
 
For Zu, the recent years of COVID-19 restrictions have been difficult.
對(duì) Zu 來(lái)說(shuō)，最近幾年的 COVID-19 限制一直很艱難。
 
But he is doing better now that he is learning music and spending time with other young people at a school called Chen's Studio in Beijing.
但他現(xiàn)在做得更好，因?yàn)樗诒本┮凰麨?Chen's Studio 的學(xué)校學(xué)習(xí)音樂(lè)并與其他年輕人共度時(shí)光。
 
Chen's Studio started offering music lessons for people with autism when the pandemic started.
大流行開(kāi)始后，陳氏工作室開(kāi)始為自閉癥患者提供音樂(lè)課程。
 
Zu's mother, Zhao Guorong, brings her son to the music school every Sunday so he can study with the teacher, Chen Shensi.
祖的母親趙國(guó)榮每個(gè)星期天都會(huì)帶兒子去音樂(lè)學(xué)校學(xué)習(xí)和陳深思老師一起。
 
It takes them two hours on three different buses to get to the classroom from their home outside of Beijing.
他們從北京郊外的家坐三輛不同的公交車(chē)到教室要花兩個(gè)小時(shí)。
 
At the Beijing studio, Zu learned how to play the keyboards and sing in a band called "Star Kids."
在北京的工作室，祖在一個(gè)名為“Star Kids”的樂(lè)隊(duì)中學(xué)習(xí)了如何彈奏鍵盤(pán)和唱歌。
 
"Without music, without these lessons, he wouldn't have anything," Zhao said. The children he grew up with, she said, all have jobs or go to school. She said her son would not have any people to socialize with if it were not for the music school.
“沒(méi)有音樂(lè)，沒(méi)有這些課程，他將一事無(wú)成，”趙說(shuō)。她說(shuō)，和他一起長(zhǎng)大的孩子都有工作或上學(xué)。她說(shuō)，如果不是音樂(lè)學(xué)校，兒子就沒(méi)有人可以交往了。
 
Although Zu is older than the other young people at Chen's Studio, "they all take care of him like he's their brother," Zhao said.
盡管祖的年齡比陳氏工作室的其他年輕人大，“他們都像對(duì)待他一樣照顧他他是他們的兄弟，”趙說(shuō)。
 
China is making progress in teaching people about autism and offering more support for people like Zu. But experts say there are still millions of children who do not get social or educational support.
中國(guó)在向人們傳授自閉癥知識(shí)方面取得了進(jìn)展，并為像祖這樣的人提供更多支持。但專(zhuān)家表示，仍有數(shù)百萬(wàn)兒童得不到社會(huì)或教育支持。
 
Chen knows the young people with autism will have trouble getting jobs, so he hopes music will help them make a living. The Star Kids band has already played some concerts.
陳知道患有自閉癥的年輕人很難找到工作，所以他希望音樂(lè)能幫助他們謀生。 Star Kids 樂(lè)隊(duì)已經(jīng)舉辦過(guò)一些音樂(lè)會(huì)。
 
He did not know much about autism before he started teaching a bass player with the disorder in 2020. So, when China put restrictions in place in the early days of the pandemic, and Chen could not teach his regular students anymore, he offered free lessons to those with autism.
在 2020 年開(kāi)始教一名患有自閉癥的貝司手之前，他對(duì)自閉癥了解不多。所以，當(dāng)中國(guó)早期實(shí)施限制時(shí)大流行，陳無(wú)法再教他的普通學(xué)生，他為自閉癥患者提供免費(fèi)課程。
 
"COVID has been hard, and I wanted to do as much as I can to give them joy through music," he said.
“COVID 一直很艱難，我想盡我所能給他們通過(guò)音樂(lè)獲得快樂(lè)，”他說(shuō)。
 
At the start, it was hard. Chen became frustrated when he had trouble communicating with his students. However, it eventually became easier. He said he knows it is hard for them to communicate.
一開(kāi)始，這很艱難。陳在與學(xué)生交流時(shí)遇到困難時(shí)變得很沮喪。然而，它最終變得更容易了。他說(shuō)他知道他們很難溝通。
 
But "to some degree, I think music might be their language."
但“在某種程度上，我認(rèn)為音樂(lè)可能是他們的語(yǔ)言。”