Monthly Archives: May 2019

President Halimah Yacob said this should be done as part of the country’s Smart Nation push, a national effort to support better living using technology. She was speaking during a community engagement visit yesterday to Metta School, which caters to students from the ages of seven to 21 who have autism and mild intellectual disabilities. […]

You might assume that having grown up in a family with two brothers on the autism spectrum, Debra Lam would be predisposed to championing causes involving people with disabilities (PWDs). For the 26-year-old, that wasn’t the case. In fact, throughout much of her adolescence, Lam admits she wasn’t too fond of her elder and younger […]

SINGAPORE — A team of scientists led by Duke-NUS Medical School has found a potential link between autism and a commonly prescribed antidepressant — but also a possible treatment. The team of researchers from Singapore and South Korea found that mice that had been exposed to the antidepressant fluoxetine in the womb behaved differently, compared with […]

Social Work – AutismSTEP AutismSTEP will like to help the less privileged families with children with Autism by volunteering in Prison Fellowship Singapore to help the families of both the convicts and ex-convicts by providing support and training for the families and volunteers. Prison Fellowship Singapore focus on strengthening the church-community partnership and developing cohesiveness […]