President Halimah Yacob said this should be done as part of the country’s Smart Nation push, a national effort to support better living using technology. She was speaking during a community engagement visit yesterday to Metta School, which caters to students from the ages of seven to 21 who have autism and mild intellectual disabilities. […]

You might assume that having grown up in a family with two brothers on the autism spectrum, Debra Lam would be predisposed to championing causes involving people with disabilities (PWDs). For the 26-year-old, that wasn’t the case. In fact, throughout much of her adolescence, Lam admits she wasn’t too fond of her elder and younger […]

SINGAPORE — A team of scientists led by Duke-NUS Medical School has found a potential link between autism and a commonly prescribed antidepressant — but also a possible treatment. The team of researchers from Singapore and South Korea found that mice that had been exposed to the antidepressant fluoxetine in the womb behaved differently, compared with […]

Social Work – AutismSTEP AutismSTEP will like to help the less privileged families with children with Autism by volunteering in Prison Fellowship Singapore to help the families of both the convicts and ex-convicts by providing support and training for the families and volunteers. Prison Fellowship Singapore focus on strengthening the church-community partnership and developing cohesiveness […]

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday urged Americans to protect themselves with the measles vaccination as the number of cases of the once-eradicated disease in the United States hit the highest levels since 2000. The growing outbreak in pockets across the country has triggered multiple public health efforts seeking to limit exposure to measles, […]