The father is Singaporean, the mother Mongolian and the boy was just one year old when he came here with his parents from London, ostensibly for a short visit. Once in Singapore, the boy’s father served divorce papers on his mother and applied to restrain her from taking her son back. Thus began a stormy […]

Taking care of three boys is already a challenge for most people, more so when all three have or are suspected of having autism. Madam Annette Chua, 33, does just that – and two of the boys are not her sons but her nephews. For going “over and beyond her duty as an aunt”, she […]

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 […]