How schools support students with special needs
She worked towards a degree despite visual impairment and kidney failure
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When Ms Tan Xing En started losing her eyesight at around the age of three, her mother was worried that she would not be able to cope with going to a mainstream primary school.
Ms Tan was later diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disorder of the eye that causes loss of vision.
