Events

Close to 130 students with physical disabilities and students with parents who are physically disabled will be receiving the Natsteel-SPD Education Programme Bursary Awards to help them along their educational journey for the year.

For the second year, SPD has clinched the Singapore Prestige Brand Award – Special Merit.

In conjunction with this year’s Speech Therapy Week which will take place from 1 to 6 November, SPD will collaborate with the Speech-Language and Hearing Association, Singapore (SHAS) to organise a public forum to raise awareness of communication and swallowing difficulties and its impact on quality of life.

The growth and constant evolution of social media often makes it an uphill task for us to keep abreast with its developments. IAC is committed to helping you and your clients harness these new technologies so that they serve your needs. We have invited speakers from Microsoft Singapore, 24 seven Communications and Australian Communications Exchange to share on the various social media platforms and how it can enrich the lives of people with disabilities.

Notice of the 46th Annual General Meeting and Nominees for SPD’s Board of Management 2010-2012

The ‘I Accept’ campaign is a fundraising cum public education event aimed at encouraging the inclusion and acceptance of people with disabilities as equal members at work, in school and in the community. Show your support by making a pledge of donation or purchasing the specially designed ‘I Accept’ badges or t-shirts. More ‘I Accept’ activities will be rolled out in the upcoming months, so watch out for them here and on SPD’s Facebook page!

Part of the ‘SOW – It’s Time To Grow’, The Tweet Meet aims to connect more people with disabilities to the online world and encourage them to take up IT skills through this civic movement. You can participate by tweeting about the movement at #TweetMeetSG, join the Facebook group The Tweet Meet SG and pledge your attendance at the event. You can also be a volunteer to help out at the event or sign up somebody you know with disabilities who will benefit from one of the highly subsidised IT courses available at the Centre

The SPD Flag Day is one of SPD’s major fundraising activities. It also serves as a very good platform to create greater awareness of SPD’s mission and programmes and services. Funds raised will go towards providing quality programmes and services for people with physical disabilities.

People with disabilities from SPD will once again be providing free income tax e-filing service for taxi drivers.

Tiger Balm of Haw Par Healthcare celebrated the Lunar New Year with the Tiger Balm Record Roar 2010 at the Underwater World Singapore. Apart from games and song performances by SPD’s clients, one of the main draws of the event was an attempt to leap into the Singapore Book of Records with the largest number of people born in the Year of Tiger gathered at one place. The event attracted 308 participants