Tag Archives: Special Needs

A reader talks about how the only “positive” thing to have emerged from the Greenridge Crescent murder is that the society has to relook into the help given to caregivers of special needs children.

A car camera video showed a driver making a left turn along a road junction and encountered a boy suddenly running onto the left lane of the road. Fortunately an unidentified man came running to the rescue of the boy and safely removed him from traffic. The mother later saw a Malay couple holding on to her son. She was so overcome with shock and relief that she did not manage to say anything much to them except "May Allah bless you both." Now that the mother has composed herself, she is reaching out through social media to try to find this kindhearted Malay couple who saved her son.

A former teacher of the autistic child who got rejected flute lessons has spoken up about the matter. He was disappointed in the new Yamaha teacher for discriminating a special needs child and denying him of the chance to learn music.

A parent shared his disappointing and humiliating experience with Yamaha Contempo Music School at Plaza Singapura recently, where his boy was publicly humiliated after his teacher decided that he could not teach him any more and left him heartbroken and waiting outside the classroom.

There are 250 students, including 12 special needs children who are mixed with the overall student population. It has 58 teachers and 25 staff, which works out to a teachers to students ratio of about 2.3 : 10, and a staff to students ratio of about 1 : 10. The teachers’ salary range from 2.5 to 5.5 million rupiah (S$265 to S$582). The school is licensed to operate by the Government and has been refusing to take certain government funding for many years, because of the conditions that come with such funding. Needy students also get scholarships to study free of charge. Of the about 250 students – about eight of them are foreigners. No distinction is made between Indonesian and foreign students. Many graduates from the school keep coming back to be volunteers. I spoke to one who spoke in perfect English, who was full of praise for his experience as a student.

Totally upset over what happened to a fellow mummy of a Williams Syndrome child in our WS parent support group... My friend was at a 7-11 and her child went behind the cashier's counter to play with the spinning fan. This Aunty in the pic/video scolded my friend for being an incompetent mother and said that she should have controlled him

Hello guys, i have a special needs cousin who is missing and has yet taken her medication for epilepsy. Will u guys be able to help spread the word? The whole family is worried and searching for her.

The school fees in special needs schools tend to be much higher ($350/month in the case of Pathlight) than in mainstream schools (although there are subsidies for the needy). I shared my view that parents of special needs children should not be paying any more in school fees, than those with children in mainstream schools.

I seek your help urgently Especially, To Hougang & Sengkang residence, if you are out, walking around please do keep a Look Out For My Cousin (attach photo). His a special need Teenager. With no money nor even a mobile phone. He do have his contact detail in his bag.