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 […]

Doctors in neighbourhood polyclinics and pre-school teachers will be trained to spot and screen children who are not reaching their developmental milestones, so the children can get help earlier. In the next few years, the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) will work with the Ministry of Health (MOH) to form a network of […]

WASHINGTON: Sesame Street has often experimented with new ways of teaching children about social issues as well as their ABCs since its launch nearly 50 years ago. Now it’s taking on a new challenge: Autism. The groundbreaking public television children’s program is introducing a new character, a muppet named Julia who has autism, the show’s […]