Monthly Archives: August 2017

Yamaha has apologised after a parent complained that a flute instructor at the Yamaha Contempo Music School cancelled his son’s lesson because of the child’s autism. In a Facebook post on Monday, Mr Ivan Lim described how his 12-year-old son Alex was turned away from his flute lesson at the school at Plaza Singapura mall. […]

Students from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have raised more than $400,000 through the NUS Students’ Union (NUSSU) Rag and Flag 2017. The funds raised will go towards 21 charity programmes supported by Community Chest, including the AWWA Special Student Care Centre, Fei Yue Community Services, Pathlight School, St Andrew’s Autism Centre, and The […]

Eleven-year-old Rifqi Shauqi may not have had a front-row ticket to the National Day Parade, but he was really close to the action and travelled there like a VIP. Rifqi, who is autistic, was one of 15 children from local special-needs charity Rainbow Centre Singapore, who were driven from their schools in Margaret Drive and […]

SINGAPORE — Instead of the usual one-week training he conducts for new employees, environmental services department supervisor Davis Chew spends about three weeks helping new staff with disabilities at Yishun Community Hospital (YCH) to learn the ropes.   However, he does not just provide them with reading materials and verbal instructions, like for other staff. […]

Loud noises and bright lights terrified her, school gave her meltdowns. For years Dawn-joy Leong didn’t know why, until she found out she had Asperger’s Syndrome, she tells On the Red Dot. SINGAPORE: For over 40 years, Dr Dawn-joy Leong struggled to come to terms with some of her eccentricities and social awkwardness. She had […]