Advance Care Planning (ACP), Advance Medical Directive (AMD), Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA), and Deputyship explained. It can be trying for our loved ones to make difficult decisions for us when a serious illness strikes. One way to lighten their burden is to begin our care planning early. Hear from one of our caregivers as he walks us through his care planning journey.
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Parents may be tempted to place more emphasis on academic learning or caregiving routines. However, young children learn most naturally through play. So, how important is play in a child’s daily life? SPD’s senior psychologist Lim Lihong and psychologist Sandy Ang share more.
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SPD’s volunteer adaptive fitness trainer, Aimee Pestano, shares some insights on how exercising can help individuals with autism overcome some of the effects of the pandemic situation on their physical and mental health.
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Learning a second language presents many benefits and practical advantages. Not only does it allow one to converse with others, people who speak a second language have also been shown to have better social and problem-solving skills as compared to monolinguals. However, with more people using English as their main language, children have lower motivation and fewer opportunities to gain proficiency in a second language. In this article, SPD’s speech therapist, Oh Jing Jing, answers some of the most frequently asked questions about learning a second language.
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Everyday routines such as mealtime, bath time, play time and story time provide opportunities for communication and language development. Routines are a great way for children’s learning as they provide repeated opportunities for learning in a natural, relaxed, and enjoyable way. Using routines also helps your child participate meaningfully in your family’s typical activities of the day.
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With the ever-evolving pandemic situation, public health policies in Singapore may require children to get tested for COVID-19. This means more children may be receiving nasopharyngeal swabs (also called “swab tests”) as part of the Government’s effort to identify and ringfence potential exposure to keep everyone safe. For many children, going for a swab test
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Recent cases featured in the media1 have highlighted some of the challenges that people with special needs and their caregivers encounter when complying with COVID-19 tests and protocols. Over the past one year, we have helped our clients and their caregivers manoeuvre these protocols, and here are some pre-emptive measures which we realised could help
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Training your child to use the toilet is an exciting milestone for both child and parent alike. In this first of the two-part series, SPD’s occupational therapist Jahzeel Ann Adan Eleazar gives an overview of toilet training and some common barriers affecting it.
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SPD’s occupational therapist, Jahzeel Ann Adan Eleaza shares some tips to help make toilet training easier for your child.
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Organisational skills are a set of techniques used by individuals to facilitate the efficiency of learning, problem solving, and task completion.
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