EMILY YAP – DAS Young Achiever Award 2018
Growing up with a learning difficulty without understanding why sets learners at a very disadvantaged place. If a child is not given proper intervention and attention, the child most likely gets left behind. More often than not, they get labelled and criticised for their learning difficulty. For Emily, she felt like she was different from […]
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN WITH SPLD- Part 2
THE IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE Read Part 2 of this article, by Hani Zohra Muhamad, a Lead Educational Therapist and Educational Advisor with the DAS English Language and Literacy Division. Children who are confronted with a multitude of complicated or distressed feelings cannot and will not learn effectively. Positive social and emotional well-being is […]
SOCIAL EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN WITH SPLD- Part 1
DOES ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE ANCHOR THE SUCCESS OF ALL STUDENTS Read this interesting article, by Hani Zohra Muhamad, a Lead Educational Therapist and Educational Advisor with the DAS English Language and Literacy Division. Daniel Goleman (1995) wrote in his book entitled ‘Emotional Intelligence’, “IQ is only a minor predictor of success in life, while emotional and social skills are […]
SPEECH AND DRAMA PERFORMANCE AT UNITE SPLD 2018
DAS STUDENTS HAD THE CHANCE TO PERFORM IN FRONT OF A LARGE PUBLIC AUDIENCE FOR THE FIRST TIME! Students from the DAS Speech and Drama Arts Programme performed on the second day of the UNITE SPLD Conference in June 2018. The young actors fresh from the previous evening’s rehearsal performed a 30-minute scene from the Monkey King. The […]
CEO Thoughts – “DARE TO DREAM!” 2018 Fundraising Campaign
I am pleased to announce the launch of the Dyslexia Association of Singapore’s latest fundraising event, The DAS 2018 DARE TO DREAM fundraising campaign as we strive to help children with dyslexia from lower-income families access the professional and specialist services they deserve. DAS provides more than $1 million in student bursaries every year and this figure […]
THE AMAZING JOURNEY
30 STUDENTS FROM OUR DAS CHINESE PROGRAMME WENT TO SEE A STAGE SHOW – THE AMAZING JOURNEY! Chinese Programme offers students an opportunity to immerse themselves in a Chinese Production, Educational Therapists from our Chinese Programme, Felicia Poh, Bella Kho and Lilian Yue, escorted 30 Students into the enchanting forest on the adventure of Kiki the and, Monk the […]
UNITE SPLD 2018
UNITE SpLD Conference 2018 was a resounding success! Now in its 4th year, the conference saw more than 450 participants at the Lifelong Learning Institute on 21 and 22 June. UNITE SpLD saw more than 65 presenters and researchers from all over the world share about supporting students with learning differences. The UNITE SpLD Conference […]
SCHOOL OF LIFE
Sylvia Foo our Senior Lecturer at DAS Academy shares her insights about how children can learn when on family vacations! The inspiration for this article comes from a French movie I watched on my flight back to Singapore from a recent overseas vacation. My return to the reality of work and caregiving responsibilities after a shopping and eating […]
SOUNDS-WRITE
Serena Tan Abdullah the Assistant Director for Curriculum Development for the DAS English Language Literacy Division shares with us the professional development our staff undergo to support the teaching of the English language and phonics. The DAS Main Literacy Programme has come a long way and we constantly look to ways to enhance the programme to benefit our learners by […]
DARE TO DREAM
You gotta have a dream, if you don’t have a dream, How you gonna have a dream come true? (Lyrics from the song “Happy Talk” written by Oscar Hammerstein II.) Opportunities abound for students who do not have any learning differences. They have opportunities to cast their net wide in terms of fulfilling their dreams and aspirations. […]