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When it opens in 2022, the new Rainbow Centre campus in Admiralty Link will feature an area modelled on real-world environments such as shops and other community spaces. Dubbed Social Town, this environment in the new campus, which will cater to students with autism, allows for “authentic learning” and helps ease its students’ transition after […]

SINGAPORE – Over the past 21/2 weeks following the end of the Asian Games, Joseph Schooling’s mind has been on “anything except swimming”. But the Olympic champion, who won two individual golds and two relay bronzes in Jakarta, was back by the pool on Tuesday (Sept 11) to talk swimming to 12 children at the […]

More than 2,000 runners flocked to Bishan Stadium and Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park yesterday – and faced greater issues than just the heat. They were taking part in this year’s Run For Inclusion, Singapore’s annual running event where athletes with disabilities can run alongside the able-bodied. Among the participants was 27-year-old student Wong Ren Yi, […]

SINGAPORE: A secretly-recorded Facebook video which showed a young man touching his private parts while looking at a girl on an MRT train here caused immediate outrage – until the man’s aunt came forward to reveal that her nephew is autistic. She also expressed heartbreak over the video going viral online – a sentiment shared […]

SINGAPORE – A charity netball match, featuring Member of Parliament for Marine Parade GRC Seah Kian Peng, media personalities, Team Singapore netballers, Deloitte partners and staff, has raised $15,000 for social service organisation AWWA. The charity game was played at the Deloitte Pesta Sukan 2018 on Saturday (Aug 18) morning at Kallang Netball Centre. Mr […]

SINGAPORE – More than 2,000 runners flocked to Bishan Stadium and Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park on Sunday (Aug 26) – and faced greater problems than just the heat. They were taking part in this year’s Run For Inclusion, Singapore’s annual running event where disabled athletes can run alongside the able-bodied. Among those taking part was […]

SINGAPORE — After more than four years of cross-border legal battles, the Apex court on Thursday (Aug 16) granted a Singaporean father full care and control of his six-year-old autistic son, overturning a previous court ruling that the boy be returned to his mother residing in the United Kingdom (UK). The mother, a 35-year-old Mongolian […]

Over three weeks from July 15, more than 100 people from different community groups in Marine Parade came together to sew dolls with about 40 children with autism. These volunteers created 53 plushies in 10 two-hour sessions in a sewing project named Singapore Pride Plushies (SPP). Tomorrow, these plushies will be on display at locations […]

All they wanted was to help their special needs child become more independent. Who knew that this simple desire would lead to the opening of a special needs school and a Western food cafe? Founded by Faraliza Zainal and Ali Dawood, My Inspiring Journey Special Education Hub (MIJ) was opened in 2011 to help their […]

SINGAPORE – Ever since she was a young girl, Miss Tan Seet Ynn has been mindful she will have to care for her younger brother Sean, who has autism. As the 17-year-old Eden School student may not be able to work and support himself, she will have to do so, her parents have always told […]