Venessa Lee
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The unheralded strengths of teachers with special needs (opens the original)
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Sign up now: Get tips on how to help your child succeed (Clockwise from top left) Maths teacher Joel Lee, science teacher Syed Ali Mohamed Alhabshee and resource teacher Penny Chong. ST PHOTOS: KEVIN LIM, NG SOR LUAN, SHINTARO TAY SINGAPORE – In recent times, there has been more societal attention paid to issues relating to disability and neurodivergence, including special education and learning challenges like dyslexia. While considerable efforts have been made to address the challenges faced b
Teachers with special needs: Homecoming at Pathlight (opens the original)
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Sign up now: Get tips on how to help your child succeed Mathematics teacher Joel Lee is neurodiverse like his pupils at Pathlight School. He has autism and ADHD. SINGAPORE – Joel Lee, 29, is a mathematics teacher at Pathlight School. It is where he started as a pupil more than 20 years ago, before he made the transition to mainstream education. Pathlight is Singapore’s first special education school offering the national curriculum for those on the autism spectrum. Lee has taught at Pathlight’s
Teachers with special needs: ‘Sir, are you deaf?’ (opens the original)
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Sign up now: Get tips on how to help your child succeed Science teacher Syed Ali Mohamed Alhabshee has significant hearing loss. SINGAPORE – Science teacher Syed Ali Mohamed Alhabshee, 44, uses hearing aids that his secondary school students have occasionally mistaken for wireless earbuds. He was upfront with them, instantly dispelling any incredulous thoughts that he might be listening to music at work.
Teachers with special needs: Guiding blind students and, sometimes, their parents (opens the original)
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Sign up now: Get tips on how to help your child succeed Penny Chong, who is blind, is a resource teacher coaching students with visual disabilities at Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School. SINGAPORE – Penny Chong, 48, has been working with students with visual disabilities at her alma mater, Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School, for 19 years. Becoming a resource teacher was a dream of hers after she became blind at the age of nine. In mainstream schools in Singapore, resource teachers are educators who supp
Grieving parents launch Singapore non-profit to beat childhood brain cancer (opens the original)
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Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Johnson Loo and Linda Ong – the parents of Natasha Loo, who died of DIPG, a paediatric brain tumour that is nearly always fatal – have founded non-profit DIPG Alliance. SINGAPORE – Natasha Loo was excited about starting Primary 1. At the beginning of 2024, she would bound out of bed at 5.45am to get ready for her school bus. She made friends easily at CHIJ (Katong) Primary. Before the school year began, she went with her family to Japan f
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