When Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his wife Ho Ching visited the White House in 2016, all eyes were on what Ho Ching was carrying: a purse made out of dinosaur fabric designed by a youth with autism. See Toh…
“Most parents worry about how good a job they’ve done bringing up their children. But having a profound disability gives me some additional pause for thought.” Mike’s words echo the sentiments of many parents who live with a disability.…
A recent incident with her younger son jolted Tiffanie DiDonato, a mother of two, to recall the uncertainty that plagued her when she was first pregnant. Tiffanie has diastrophic dysplasia, which is a rare form of dwarfism, and having children…
“Has having a daughter with a disability changed you?” Chuck Chapman was recently asked this question. When his daughter, Chrissy, was 6 months old, her pediatrician noted that she was not reaching certain developmental milestones. When Chrissy was 2, they learned…
Knowing our rights can make a world of difference in how we perceive the world. As a child, accounts and administrative assistant Lisa Loh did not enjoy celebrating Chinese New Year, a festive period of each year that children enjoy the…
President of the Disabled People’s Association Nicholas Aw, 50, looks to the younger generation to be the change for a more inclusive Singapore in the future. Nicholas, who has Tourette’s syndrome – a neurological disorder characterised by involuntary movements or…
David Elbert is both parent and caregiver to his daughter Ruby. When Ruby was 4 months old, she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a form of cancer which resulted in a spinal cord injury from T-12/L1 to L5. A rough medical…
As a kid in a mainstream primary school, Charmaine Tan had resigned herself to sitting in a corner and reading books because she was not able to play with her normal-sighted classmates. “When I was young, I did not have any…
In May of 2000, my fourteen-year- old daughter looked forward to making the volleyball team at her new school. Instead, Beth would begin her freshman year with a C6-7 spinal cord injury, the result of a car accident near our hometown in…
Since she was a kid, Charmaine Tan thought up of many strategies to keep reading. Born with retinitis pigmentosa, a progressive deterioration that causes eventual total vision loss, Charmaine had tunnel vision and only lost her ability to read two years…