Korean ๐ŸŽง Embracing the Spectrum of Diversity ๋‹ค๋ฆ„์„ ๋Œ์–ด์•ˆ๋‹ค


OOO Club is a social and learning support group for college students on the autism spectrum. The club has no restrictions on membership. Anyone interested in promoting inclusion and diversity in the university community is welcomed. The group members love to talk about school life. They also like to play bowling together. The process of making decisions about what to do is also an opportunity for the members to practice social interaction. Although the clubโ€™s history is not long, the existence of the club is a great comfort for the members and an invaluable resource for their wholesome university life.

OOO ํด๋Ÿฝ์€ ์žํ๋ฒ”์ฃผ์„ฑ ์žฅ์• ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋Œ€ํ•™์ƒ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ต ๋ฐ ํ•™์Šต ์ง€์› ๋ชจ์ž„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํด๋Ÿฝ์€ ๊ฐ€์ž… ์ž๊ฒฉ์— ์ œํ•œ์„ ๋‘๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์˜ ํฌ์šฉ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋‹ค์–‘์„ฑ ์ฆ์ง„์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ๊ฐ€์ž…ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ์ž„์€ ์ •ํ•ด์ง„ ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์šด์˜ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•™๊ต ์ƒํ™œ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์ž์œ ๋กœ์šด ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ํ•  ๋•Œ๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ , ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋ณผ๋ง์žฅ์„ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐ์ •ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์— ์ฐธ์—ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋„ ํšŒ์›๋“ค์—๊ฒ ์ƒํ˜ธ์ž‘์šฉ์„ ์—ฐ์Šตํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณผ์ •์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํด๋Ÿฝ์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์•„์ง ๊ธธ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ ํšŒ์›๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ํด๋Ÿฝ์˜ ์กด์žฌ๋Š” ํฐ ํž˜์ด ๋˜๊ณ  ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์šด ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์ƒํ™œ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์†Œ์ค‘ํ•œ ์ž์›์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.


About the guest speaker

Ms Min Stewart, who teaches students at a university, witnessed the challenges faced by people who are on the autism spectrum. Some daily routines like meeting new people, from schoolmates to faculty and staff members, and studying or doing other activities together were great challenges for people with autism. This was the reason she founded a club for students who are on the autism spectrum. Just as the word โ€˜spectrumโ€™ suggests, people who are on the autism spectrum are diverse individuals. This is why Ms Stewart stressed that we should treat everyone as a unique person. ย 

๋Œ€ํ•™์—์„œ ํ•™์ƒ์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์น˜๋Š” ์ŠคํŠœ์–ดํŠธ ๋ฏผ ์”จ๋Š” ์žํ๋ฒ”์ฃผ์„ฑ ์žฅ์• ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋ถ„๋“ค์ด ๊ฒช๋Š” ์–ด๋ ค์›€์„ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ, ํ•™๊ต ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์„ ๋น„๋กฏํ•ด ๊ต์ˆ˜ ๋ฐ ์ง์›๊นŒ์ง€ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ณ  ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๊ณต๋ถ€๋‚˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํ™œ๋™์„ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์žํ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ํฐ ๋„์ „์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ŠคํŠœ์–ดํŠธ ์”จ๋Š” ์žํ๋ฒ”์ฃผ์„ฑ ์žฅ์• ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ํด๋Ÿฝ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์žํ๋ฒ”์ฃผ์„ฑ ์žฅ์• ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๋ถ„๋“ค์€ โ€˜๋ฒ”์ฃผโ€™๋ผ๋Š” ๋ง ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ชจ์Šต์œผ๋กœ ์กด์žฌํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ŠคํŠœ์–ดํŠธ ์”จ๋Š” ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ํ‹€์— ๋ฐ•ํžŒ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ ๋Œ€์‹  ํ•œ ๋ช… ํ•œ ๋ช…์˜ ๊ฐœ์ธ์œผ๋กœ ์žํ๋ฅผ ๊ฒช๋Š” ๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ๋Œ€ํ•ด๋‹ฌ๋ผ๊ณ  ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

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