For most of her life, Dr Dawn-joy Leong, 51, has been viewed as an oddball. She could fold origami at three years old and composed a musical play at the age of nine. But while obviously intelligent, she was labelled difficult and spoilt when she had what were perceived as tantrums and could not be […]

A group of friends are sitting in the garden chatting – but only one of them hears the ice-cream van in the distance. That person is autistic. He is also able to hear the buzzing of electricity in the walls and, sometimes, finds it overwhelming to be in a very noisy environment. Our most recent […]

We often receive feedback from parents about long waiting list and long waiting time to go through consultation, assessment and placement in centres and schools for their children. In Autism STEP, your child can have assessment as soon as the very next week and therapy can commence in no more than 3 weeks!

The youngest of her three children, Ivan, 27, has severe autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. He is non-verbal and requires constant supervision. While Ivan sees a psychiatrist at the Institute of Mental Health every three months, Madam Lim shares her experiences with parents of similar children in a caregiver group. Her contributions to the […]

A 16-year-old boy with autism wandered the streets and braved the elements for a stretch of 10 days last month. The slim-built boy had gone missing at about noon on March 14 at Tah Ching Road, off Yuan Chin Road in Jurong. The police sent out a missing person appeal on its Twitter account on […]