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Multi-talented Down`s Syndrome Child - Chou, Tse Han
[Tireless to create a diverse life]
 
 Music allows me to spread the seeds of love and kindness, swimming makes me strong and healthy, and painting brings me diligent and brave to face life.
 
- Chou, Tse Han
 
Insists on creating unlimited possibilities
Chou, Tse Han, currently studying in the 2nd year of the Nan Kai University of Technology, was born to undergo a surgery for congenital heart disease.
 
Subsequently, he was diagnosed with Down’s syndrome and severe mental retardation.
 
In addition to long-term rehabilitation therapy, Tse Han had to practice to overcome the limitations of congenital physical limitations and intellectual understanding. However, he did not give up but worked harder and practiced repeatedly.
 
Under the difficulty of intellectual understanding, he has developed a habit of reading to break through the writing obstacles and write with feelings. He has also learned to swim from fear in swimming to win 1st place in several national physical and mental obstacle swimming competitions, play ocarina and jazz drumming from a drooling mouth to create beautiful music, and paint from unfamiliar in painting to the capability of painting a colorful life. He is self-reliance and self-independent and has even received several street artist licenses.
 
The quality of being persistence and never gives up has created Tse Han with unlimited possibilities.
 
Spreads the seeds of love despite multiple disabilities
So far, Tse Han has not only played ocarina to obtain the street artist licenses in Taichung City, Miaoli County, Chiayi County, Hualien County, etc., and even played jazz drum to gain the street artist group license in Taichung City. Besides self-entertaining, he is also helping others to help themselves.
 
He has become a regular team member of the Down Syndrome Instrumental Orchestra to give charity performances, and even often goes to various nursing homes and school campuses to share life education with teachers and students and spread the seeds of love.
 
The most valuable thing is that Chou, Tse Han often loves to share his journey of learning and growth with schools and schoolmates to motivate his younger brothers and sisters to be active. Meanwhile, he is also determined to be a valuable person in other people’s lives. He is self-reliance, self-independent, and is helping others to help themselves. He deserves to be praised as a “Multi-talented Down’s Syndrome Child,” and stood out among 2,723 recommended candidates from all over the world and earned him the “22nd Fervent Global Love of Lives Award 2019” from Taiwan’s Chou Ta-Kuan Cultural and Educational Foundation.
 
The Foundation welcomes all walks of life around the world at any time to recommend candidates of life warriors who possess the contexts of endeavors, love, braveness, and achievement.
 
The Fervent Global Love of Lives Medal - Chou Ta-Kuan Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taiwan
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Victory over death and breaks through all difficulties
When Tse Han was born, he had congenital heart disease and underwent an eight-hour long operation.
 
After the operation, the newborn who was initially thought to escape from danger suffered yet another lung hypertension symptom and readmitted to the neonatal intensive care unit, but his heartbeat stopped and was immediately rushed into the operating room again.
 
The picture of Tse Han being inserted with tubes, gauze covering his entire body, and deep scars on his chest have become a stamped mark of his victory over death.
 
Teased by fate and God’s judgment
Eight months after the operation, Tse Han’s health gradually recovered.
The ruthless inspection report let Tse Han’s life hit rock bottom again.
When the doctor announced that Tse Han was diagnosed with “Down’s syndrome” accompanied with severe mental retardation, the news was like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky to his parents, tormenting their inner hearts.
However, they chose to face the fact bravely and said that to be able to live is hope; nothing is more valuable than life!
Despite being depressed and sad, they still actively searched for relevant information, joined the Down Syndrome Foundation, and accompanied Tse Han to fight for life.
 
Unique childhood has created unlimited hopes
The growth of a Down’s syndrome child is slower and little than the average child. Also, Tse Han has had congenital heart disease with weak body resistance, causing frequent respiratory infections, pneumonia, and other symptoms due to colds.
 
Thin and small, Tse Han’s childhood was almost occupied with the chores of shuttling through the hospital and rehabilitation center.
 
To overcome the innate physical limitations and intellectual understanding difficulties, besides long-term rehabilitation therapy, Tse Han has been receiving Chinese classics reading education since childhood. He has thus developed a habit of reading to break through the textual obstacles and write feelings from the initial difficulties in intellectual understanding. He also encouraged himself to learn swimming to strengthen his body, from the initial fear of swimming to win 1st place in several national swimming competitions. The training has let Tse Han’s life to hold unlimited possibilities.
 
Met a great teacher to learn ocarina
Tse Han started to learn the six-hole ocarina during the 2nd year in junior high school.
 
For a child with Down’s syndrome, learning the six-hole ocarina is more complicated than the twelve-hole ocarina due to short fingers and weak stretchability.
 
Coupled with Tse Han’s introvert personality and a lack of self-confidence, he tends to act poorly in tolerating setbacks. Although he grew up under the attentive care of his parents, they worried about whether he can adapt to the new teaching methods or not.
 
For Teacher Lin Qi Tong, he has his persistence and philosophy on teaching the Down’s syndrome children, including learning the class rules, improving the speaking ability, speaking to enable people to understand, walking with a posture like a healthy child, be confident with all behaviors, and so forth.
 
Fortunately, Lin Qi Tong is a teacher that thinks of others. Not only does he studied various music courses by himself, but also read countless books related to Down’s syndrome children to understand their characteristics. He has modified his teaching methods to enhance mutual interaction and participation among the children.
 
Regardless of whether they have done well or not, as long as there are progresses and breakthroughs, Lin and his colleagues will give applause and gradually let the children break through various bottlenecks, such as slow pronunciation, drooling, poor posture, etc.
 
To date, not only has Tse Han obtained the street artist licenses in Taichung City, Miaoli County, Chiayi County, and Hualien County in ocarina performance, but also self-entertained and self-reliance to even become a permanent member of the Down Syndrome Instrumental Orchestra to give charity performance to hospitals, schools, nursing homes, etc. to help others to help themselves.
 
Shares love to generate a virtuous cycle
Tse Han later studied in the Nan Kai University of Technology and joined the Down Syndrome Instrumental Orchestra in his spare time. He often performs at various nursing homes and campuses with the Orchestra to do life education and spread the seeds of love.
 
Tse Han wrote in the contact book: While in the Orchestra, I do charity performances every day in the philanthropy homes because I’ve seen homeless elderly fathers and mothers there, so I want to do charity activities every day to make others happy.
 
From his writing, we can see his selfless love from his actions.
       
The help extended by many kind-hearted people during Tse Han’s growth process has not only let him show his talent on the stage but also enjoyed the appreciations and applauses happily and even shared his life story to encourage others.
 
Tse Han often sends love to schools to share the learning and growth journey with his schoolmates, and at the same time, encourages his younger brothers and sisters to be positive. He also hopes to give back to society and participate in charity performances to witness that “everything is good for something.”
 
From a teacher’s perspective, Tse Han loves reading - Primary school Teacher Chang Ya Huei
Tse Han doesn’t talk much, but he has a strong motivation in learning and has his ways of thinking.
While in class, he is able to share his opinions. Tse Han is accepting language therapy and somewhat weak in oral expression and has an articulation disorder symptoms, but he doesn’t have any difficulties in interaction with his classmates.
 
He dares to express his opinions even if the classmates can’t fully understand them, but that hasn’t reduced his enthusiasm to express.
Tse Han loves reading books, such as science or insects, and he often rushes to the library on the 3rd floor to borrow books eagerly the moment after school.
Tse Han is most interested in reading than the average child. He always sits quietly and reads the books from the resource classroom or borrowed from the library.
Such valuable talent has enabled Tse Han to have the same literacy ability as his classmates!
Although Tse Han’s understanding of mathematical principles is slow, he’s not sloppy on schoolwork, regardless of Chinese or mathematics offered by the teachers.
 
In Chinese characters, primarily, Tse Han always writes each stroke carefully and calculates the basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of mathematics practically. Even if the meaning of the text application required the teacher’s explanation, Tse Han can still retain the motivation for learning. Although he has articulation disorder in pronouncing Chinese, you can hear his clear and loud voice when you pass by the classroom window. He can read and study an article in deep concentration.
 
Integrity and enthusiastic - Teacher Chang Qiong Yun
 
Although Tse Han has a cool personality, his heart is full of excitement. He can take the initiative to lend a helping hand to his colleagues, give comfort and encouragement, and greet the teachers whenever he meets one.
Although he faced setbacks while learning ocarina at the beginning and was nervous on the stage, he would practice seriously after going back and could play a more difficult song better than his classmates. He could performance naturally, not only overcoming his shyness but showing his learning result courageously. So he has become the leading warrior in the school’s activities.
During the school term, Tse Han served as the class leader and was enthusiastic about helping others. He was a responsible person and won the Role Model Award. He has even received the Mayor Award, Taichung County Education Association Award, and Taiping District Farmers Association Award.
 

Active participation to win numerous awards - Teacher Huang Wei Xian
 
Tse Han is diligent in learning to paint.
Tse Han has overcome the congenital adverse factors and chose to enroll in the school’s art class to learn painting. Although he encountered many setbacks while practicing the uncontrollable oil paintings and acrylic paints, he still maintained an optimistic nature and learned hard to break through many hurdles. He won an Honorable Award in the Graphic Painting Youth Group at the 8th National Skills Competition for the Mentally Disabled in 2016.
Tse Han, who is multi-talented, is excellence in conduct and performance. He adheres to persistency and redoubles his efforts to achieve the hard-reachable goals. He has lived a precious life just as Socrates said: “Adversity is man’s highest institution of higher learning.”
 
He received many awards in the school and excellent achievements in talent and sports competitions:
1. 1st semester, 1st year in junior high school: Won the Certificate of Merit.
2. 2nd semester, 2nd year in junior high school: Won the Academic Progress Award.
3. 1st semester, 2nd year in junior high school: Won the Outstanding Performance Award.
4. 2nd semester, 2nd year in junior high school: Won the Parent’s President Award, and Model Student Award.
5. 1st semester, 3rd year in junior high school: Won the Outstanding Performance Award.
6. 2nd semester, 3rd year in junior high school: Won the Mayor’s Graduation Award.
 7. 2015: Won 4th place in men’s 50-meter freestyle swimming at the “5th Taichung City National Disabled Games.”
8. 2016: Won the Courage Award at the “8th National Skills Competition for the Mentally Disabled.”
9. 2016: Won 3rd place in the Bocce Ball Group Competition at the 6th Taichung City National Disabled Games.
10. 2016: Successively obtained the street artist licenses in ocarina performance in Taichung City, Miaoli County, Chiayi County, and Hualien County.
 
After graduating from senior high school, he worked hard to learn jazz drumming. In 2018, he formed a Duo Drum Group and obtained a street artist group license in Taichung City, and won 1st place in the Music Show Youth in Music Performance Youth Group at the National Finals of the 9th National Disabled Games.
 
Tse Han expresses thankful for the teachers who have been patiently accompanying him. “Thank you for your support. I’ll continue to work hard and engage in public welfare in the future, feedback to the community, and uphold the purpose of the Orchestra - share love to generate a virtuous cycle to inspire more people to cherish life and never give up.”