Teacher goes the extra mile for student with special needs
KUANTAN: Teaching a Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) 2020 candidate with special needs who has hearing problems while wearing a face mask, as required during the Covid-19 pandemic, had been a challenging yet valuable experience for Zainurah Muhamad. Other than having to use hearing aids, she said the student also reads lip movements to understand what […]
Vocational training centres for special needs people
KUCHING: Sarawak is in dire need to establish vocational training centres specialised for people with special needs, said Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah. “We have proposed to the Education Ministry for the setting up of a PWD (persons with disabilities) vocational school in Sarawak, and the ministry […]
Special need students excited to be back at school
KUALA TERENGGANU: Returning to school is like a journey to a whole new world for students with special needs. This situation can be seen when Bernama visited Sekolah Kebangsaan Pendidikan Khas, Chendering, here where the atmosphere was cheerful as the animated fingers of students with hearing disabilities flew in the air as they communicated with […]
Special-needs persons need ongoing physiotherapy
KUCHING: Wishesland president Chi Poh Yung has encouraged families with members or children with special needs to be consistent in carrying out necessary physiotherapy during the movement control order (MCO) period. He said that family members could apply what they had learnt from physiotherapists. “Without consistent intervention, their children’s conditions may worsen and be more […]
Intensified efforts to register OKU in rural areas
MIRI: Efforts will be intensified to register disabled people (OKU) in rural areas through the Social Welfare Department’s (JKS) ‘Jom Daftar’ programme. “Next week, JKS will be in Lawas for the programme,” said Deputy Women, Family and Community Development Minister Hannah Yeoh during her visit to SMK Luak Miri here, yesterday. She added that focus […]
Special school for special needs children
KUCHING: A total of 107 students, including 10 new ones, began their first day of school at Perkata Special School yesterday. Perkata Special School in Jalan Ridgeway here is a special education school that has been around since 1984 and has students aged between four and 17. New Sarawak Tribune managed to interview several individuals, […]
