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As with previous years, Dentistry collaborated with Pathlight School which caters to students on the autism spectrum and related conditions. As we are blessed with the opportunity to be trained as dental professionals, we wish to use this privilege to serve others.
65 of us went down to Pathlight School to conduct an oral hygiene workshop with the students to teach them basic oral hygiene and proper tooth brushing techniques. In preparation for this engagement session, we had a training session by therapists from Pathlight School to teach us how to interact with the children and how to effectively deliver the workshop. The training session by the therapists also increased our volunteers’ understanding of the daily struggles of children with special needs through simulative hands-on activities.
We also invited Dr Hu Shijia, a paediatric dentist from our faculty to give a training workshop for our volunteers on how to teach the toothbrushing techniques and oral hygiene to the Pathlight children. The training workshops equipped our students with both the soft skills and technical knowledge to deliver the workshop.
On the day of the workshop, our volunteers enjoyed interacting with the Pathlight School kids, who are bright and unique individuals. For classes who were fast in learning the toothbrushing technique and oral hygiene, we even carried out a Zumba activity with them.
We are immensely grateful to the faculty and Pathlight School for helping us and making this engagement session possible!
