Madam Nur Hidayah Shahrudin used to take her son Rizq to parks or to Changi Airport every week so he could practise walking with his pacer gait in large open spaces. But as social distancing and circuit breaker measures were put in place in recent weeks, her seven-year-old son, who has cerebral palsy, has had […]

As any student of American history will tell you, a presidential campaign doesn’t have to end in electoral victory to change history. From William Jennings Bryan advocating social welfare policies adopted by later presidents and Eugene McCarthy mainstreaming opposition to the Vietnam War to Shirley Chisholm breaking barriers for women and African Americans and Jesse […]

Some people with autism have an unusually large head: This fact has been known since autism was first described in the 1940s. But debate about this finding has raged ever since. How many people with autism have a large head? What causes the enlargement? And does it have any bearing on outcome? Here is what […]

MANILA, Philippines – Every morning, Marjorey Rubio and her husband are awakened by their 6-year-old son’s plea to go outside the house. It had been the established routine of the child diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), epilepsy, and global development delay. It would have been like any other day of caring for their beloved […]

With the increasing spread of Covid-19 in Singapore, wariness between strangers has naturally heightened. This was not the case between a SMRT staff and a young boy though, as witnessed by one Kelvin Ang. Boy appeared to be a bus enthusiast Ang shared details of the heartwarming encounter between the elderly man and boy on […]