SINGAPORE — During his first year in primary school, Ms Annette Chua’s nephew was unable to adapt to his new surroundings.
SINGAPORE — During his first year in a mainstream primary school, Ms Annette Chua’s nephew was unable to adapt to his new surroundings.
She subsequently enrolled her younger nephew, aged 12, whom she is also a caregiver to, and her son, aged nine, in Pathlight School.The options available to Ms Chua’s nephews and son in the education landscape is a testimony to the sea of change that has swept the special needs education sector. For students with adequate cognitive functioning but a moderate-to-severe deficit in adaptive functioning, they attend special education schools that offer the national curriculum and specialised programmes designed to meet their needs.
Within general education schools, the professional development of teachers has also improved, allowing them to better identify and employ teaching strategies for children with special needs, said industry players. While the sector had started out to care for special needs children, it has since shifted to one which emphasises the quality of the child’s education.
Mr Li said that while “there will never be a number of that is enough”, his school manages the caseload by varying the degree of intervention according to the severity of the child’s needs.Mr Johnson Li, the head of department for special education needs at New Town Primary, said that there are four Special Educational Needs officers in his school.
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