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Terwyl sy terapie vir post-traumatiese stres n\u00e1 die ongeluk ontvang het, is Sulaiman met outisme-spektrumversteuring en disleksie gediagnoseer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die daaropvolgende ingrypings en ondersteuning wat die Kraaifontein-inwoner ontvang het, het haar lewe radikaal verander. Van moedeloos voel en twyfel oor of sy ooit gaan gradueer, het sy haar finale jaar as een van die topstudente in die klas van 2023 afgesluit. Hierdie merkwaardige ommeswaai en Sulaiman se volharding om aan te hou nadat sy drie akademiese jare gedruip het, het in Oktober vanjaar aan haar \u2019n Rektorstoekenning vir uitnemendheid in akademiese veerkragtigheid besorg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Di\u00e9 toekenning het die w\u00eareld vir haar beteken omdat dit erkenning gegee het aan die deursettingsvermo\u00eb en dryfkrag wat dit geverg het om sukses te behaal, s\u00ea Sulaiman. Sy het altyd daarna gesmag om \u2019n medalje of sertifikaat te ontvang, voeg sy by. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDis met groot blydskap dat ek nou kan s\u00ea dat toe dit die meeste saak gemaak het, het ek aan die einde van my voorgraadse reis die erkenning ontvang wat al die vorige toekennings wat ek so graag wou h\u00ea, getroef het. My oom het vir my iets baie diepsinnig ges\u00ea toe hy my gelukgewens het met die Rektorstoekenning. Hy het ges\u00ea enigiemand kan erkenning ontvang vir die beste punte en onderskeidings, maar dit verg \u2019n spesiale persoon om iets spesifiek vir hulle karakter te ontvang.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sulaiman onthou dat een van haar onderwysers aan die einde van matriek vir haar \u2019n afskeidsboodskap geskryf het wat haar seergemaak het: \u201cJy het soveel potensiaal\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEk het dit nooit maklik op skool gehad nie. Ek moes altyd harder as my vermo\u00ebns werk en het nooit die resultate gesien wat ek verwag het nie. Al wat ek ooit gehoor het, was dat ek my sokkies moes optrek omdat ek soveel beter kon presteer. Wanneer jy geestesgesondheidskwessies het, lyk dit asof jy lui is, asof jy nie jou studies ernstig opneem nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEk sou my bes doen en 110% gee, maar dit was nooit goed genoeg nie. Omdat ek nie die tipiese tekens van disleksie getoon het nie \u2013 ek was nog altyd \u2019n goeie leser \u2013 kon onderwysers nie verstaan waarom ek nie beter vaar nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sulaiman het eers n\u00e1 die disleksie-diagnose besef dat al kan jy vlot lees, dit nie noodwendig beteken jy begryp d\u00edt wat jy lees, ten volle nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die terapeut wat Sulaiman n\u00e1 die ongeluk gesien het, Karin Huyssen, het haar aangeraai om by die US se ondersteuningstrukture vir studente met gestremdhede hulp te gaan soek. \u201cSy het my na die Eenheid vir Gestremdhede verwys en aanbeveel dat ek spesiale hulp soos bykomende skryftyd vir toetse en eksamens kry.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huyssen het ook aan die US se Fakulteit Geneeskunde en Gesondheidswetenskappe geskryf om raad te gee oor hoe hulle Sulaiman se spesiale behoeftes in die klaskamer kan akkommodeer. Sy het \u2019n spraakterapeut aanbeveel wat in die behandeling van outistiese pasi\u00ebnte spesialiseer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die Eenheid vir Gestremdhede het die sessies wat Sulaiman gehelp het om haar pad deur eksamens en ander akademiese uitdagings te vind, gefinansier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sy het ook \u2019n opvoedkundige sielkundige, Lamees Chetty, op die Tygerberg-kampus begin sien. Sulaiman gee erkenning aan haar terapeute en dosente, asook aan haar ouers vir hulle onwrikbare ondersteuning om haar in haar stryd by te staan en haar te motiveer om weer op dreef te kom nadat sy in 2020 die moeilike besluit geneem het om haar studies te onderbreek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEk het my liggaam en verstand vir vier jaar lank te ver gedruk. Ek het nie my verstand die rus gegee wat dit nodig gehad het nie, ek het nie na my sensoriese behoeftes en aftakelende angs omgesien nie \u2013 ek dit eerder as brandstof gebruik om myself aan te dryf. Dit het baie berading en opvoeding geverg om my daarvan te oortuig dat \u2019n onderbreking in my studies die beste stap vorentoe was. Om myself oor my diagnose en my behoeftes op te voed, was \u2019n groot spelwisselaar wat nie net my akademiese lewe nie, maar ook my verhoudings met familie en vriende be\u00efnvloed het,\u201d verduidelik Sulaiman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Totdat sy medikasie vir angs begin neem het, het Sulaiman gedink dit is normaal om elke dag naar te voel. \u201cAfgesien van medikasie, het dit ook vir my gewerk om spesialiste te sien en spesiale toegewings by die fakulteit te kry. \u2019n Spesifieke dosent is aan my toegewys wat ek een keer elke twee weke sou sien om enige kwessies aan te spreek. Die moduleko\u00f6rdineerder het een keer per week bykomende tutoriale vir my aangebied, wat dit vir my makliker gemaak het om akademies gefokus te bly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sulaiman het ook inspirasie by \u2019n ondersteuningsgroep vir outistiese en neurodivergente studente gevind wat hulle help om uitdagings te hanteer. Deur beter begrip van haar behoeftes te kry, was sy in staat om haarself te vergewe omdat sy nie so goed soos ander studente oor die jare presteer het nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Klein aanpassings, soos om na haar sensoriese behoeftes om te sien, het haar lewenskoers verander. \u201cIn klasse en tydens eksamens is ek toegelaat om \u2019n oomblik te neem om asem te skep wanneer ek oorweldig gevoel het. Die resultate van hierdie veranderinge was ongelooflik. Verlede jaar was die eerste jaar dat ek geen modules moes herhaal nie. Vanjaar was my dosente geskok dat die student wat nog altyd gesukkel het, een van die beste kliniese presteerders in die klas geword het,\u201d lag Sulaiman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sy s\u00ea dis moeilik om te beskryf wat dit vir haar beteken om aan die einde van 2023 te gradueer. \u201cEk was so gewoond daaraan om aanhoudend te sukkel dat dit onwerklik voel om so goed te doen.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dit is \u2019n nuwe, maar wonderlike gevoel om vir haar prestasies gevier te word, erken Sulaiman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sy het die afgelope twee jaar \u2019n kampvegter vir bewustheid oor geestesgesondheid geword \u2013 selfs tuis waar sy haar ouers aangeraai het om hulp vir haar jonger broer te kry wat op skool gesukkel het. \u201cHy is ook met disleksie en outisme gediagnoseer en sedert hy daarvoor behandel word en sekere toegewings vir hom gemaak word, is hy \u2019n toppresteerder,\u201d s\u00ea \u2019n trotse Sulaiman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sy glo die feit dat sy neurodivergent is, het haar \u2019n beter spraakterapeut gemaak. \u201cEk kan my persoonlik met pasi\u00ebnte vereenselwig wat met gestremdhede sukkel. Ek hoef nie \u2019n masker op te sit wanneer ek by hulle is nie, ek kan net myself wees.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hoewel sy graag uiteindelik navorsing wil doen oor hoe die behoeftes van outistiese pasi\u00ebnte die beste in spraakterapie geakkommodeer kan word, sien Sulaiman nou daarna uit om \u2019n blaaskans van die akademie te neem en as spraakterapeut te begin werk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEk is so bevoorreg omdat ek in die proses om myself te vind, verlief geraak het op spraakterapie. Ek het binne my gemeenskap baie wanbegrippe en wanopvoeding oor geestesgesondheid raakgesien. Ouers begin dikwels eers besef dat iets aangespreek moet word wanneer dit hulle kind se akademiese prestasie be\u00efnvloed. In baie gevalle is spraakafwykings die gevolg van onderliggende neurologiese, fisiese of sielkundige verskille. Ek kan as spraakterapeut gevaartekens identifiseer en waar toepaslik, vir ingryping pleit. 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