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Jane (not her real name), who has mild intellectual disability, was duped into signing up for an expensive mobile phone plan for a woman who took the phone and left Jane to pay for the contract of $78.88 per month. ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN

Targeted by cheats, those with special needs pay the price

Mr Samuel Lim, flanked by Ms Foo Xu Hui and Mr Toh Wei Soong, breathes and eats through two tubes and has a speech impairment. The three students are among this year's four recipients of the Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Scholarship for Persons w

Acid-attack victim wants to help others like himself

Acid attack left him with a speech impairment, but scholarship recipient wants to be a speech therapist

Generation Grit: Brittle of bone but far from broken

Generation Grit: He broke his bones more than a hundred times but his spirit was unbreakable

President Halimah Yacob watching Hadi Ukasyah Noor Asahar, 14, prepare food in the kitchen of Colours Cafe at St Andrew's Autism School yesterday. The in-house school cafe is run by students capable of work, so that they can develop skills and work h

Employers urged to design more inclusive workplaces

President Halimah encourages employers to design workplaces to include people with special needs

Ms Gloria Pereira, 46, with her husband Torben Kragh Joergensen, 55, and daughters Hannah (left), 17, and Christa, 20.

Daughter's learning difficulties spurred her to become an educator

Above: Volunteer Nagakalishwari Ramesh (in stripes) and training officer Nurimah Ghani helping Minds students (from left) Vicky Chew (back to camera), 12, Roy Hong, 17, and Amanda Wang, nine, with their glitter art at Minds Raintree yesterday. Below:

New student care centre for kids with special needs

New after-school care centre for special needs children opens, giving caregivers some relief