We are grieved about what is happening in the world and our hearts go out to the people who are hurting. In the past few…
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On the 2nd of April every year, people around the globe celebrate World Autism Awareness Day. In December 2007, the United Nations General Assembly declared…
We just had our annual EAP Family Day on the 6th of July 2019, where we had put on a live stage production, titled ‘The…
In conjunction with World Autism Month 2019, we at EAP Malaysia partnered up with Dome Cafe Malaysia to organise the ‘Embrace Autism’ campaign that ran…
Children with autism often find it challenging developing and maintaining meaningful friendships with other children, due to their deficits in understanding relationships and the appropriate…
It is very unfortunate for both families involved in the recent incident in Kuala Lumpur, involving a 22-year old man with autism, Ahmad Ziqri, who was arrested after being accused of molesting another woman. In light of the recent events, we at EAP were asked for our perspective by a number of media reporters and so we would like to share our thoughts on the matter, as well as to recommend various strategies that would equip other individuals with autism with the expected behaviours and appropriate social skills with regards to this matter…
April is always a big month for us here at EAP, because it is World Autism Awareness Month! It was such an eventful month and our greatest efforts thus far in raising awareness and promoting acceptance for autism in our city! Here’s a snapshot of what took place throughout the month-long campaign:
Have you heard of the LEGO-Based Therapy? It is an alternative intervention to help children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) learn social skills and social competence through LEGO play. The developers of LEGO-Based Therapy believed that this intervention approach has long-term outcomes on the child’s social skills, such as improvements in initiation of social contact with peers, duration of social interaction with peers, as well as reduction in stereotyped behaviours.
“Hey, check out my new fidget spinner! It has red and blue lights!”, “Mummy, all my friends have a fidget spinner, why can’t I have one too?”. These comments may be familiar to most school teachers and parents of children of the current generation. Everywhere we go, we see kids (and even adults!) walking around with this spinning device placed between their thumb and index finger and being spun as they stare at it with fascination.
Hey everyone! We are back with the third part of our Interactive Play Idea series and this time we have structured independent activities…