Venessa Lee

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Venessa Lee is a senior correspondent at The Straits Times who writes features on parenting and social issues.

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The unheralded strengths of teachers with special needs

(Clockwise from top left) Maths teacher Joel Lee, science teacher Syed Ali Mohamed Alhabshee and resource teacher Penny Chong.

Teachers with special needs: Homecoming at Pathlight

Maths teacher Joel Lee, 29, is neurodiverse like his students at Pathlight School. Lee has autism and ADHD.

Teachers with special needs: ‘Sir, are you deaf?’

Science teacher Syed Ali Mohamed Alhabshee has significant hearing loss.

Teachers with special needs: Guiding blind students and, sometimes, their parents

Penny Chong, who is blind, has been a resource teacher coaching visually impaired students at Ahmad Ibrahim Secondary School for nearly 20 years.

Grieving parents launch Singapore non-profit to beat childhood brain cancer

Johnson Loo and Linda Ong – parents of Natasha Loo, who died from DIPG, a virtually fatal paediatric brain tumour – have founded non-profit DIPG Alliance.

PSLE stress management: Find out root causes and listen to your child

Chung Cheng High School (Yishun) student Miyahara Karin, 12, started reading to improve her English oral and composition skills, but soon developed a love for books.

More than tips: Buskers seek applause and audience interaction

Freestyle footballer Valerie Su busking outside Wisma Atria on July 17.

Why singer Kira Peace embraces rejection

A portrait of singer-songwriter Kira Peace, who takes her spontaneous public performances to spaces such as buses, at her home.

Total eclipse of the heart: Family channels passion for chasing eclipses around the world into book

(Clockwise from bottom left) Koh Joo Beng, his wife Janet Tay and their son Jared with a photograph of a total solar eclipse with a “diamond ring” effect, which the elder Koh took in Western Australia in 2023.

He started as a guard at 75. Now 80, he is chasing a second diploma in legal studies

Anthony Png, 80, on his scooter at Temasek Polytechnic, where he is pursuing his second diploma.

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