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29 Dec 2007, 11:35 am

More teachers to be trained in special needs education (Straits Times)
By Tan Dawn Wei

MORE secondary school teachers will be equipped to help students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia or autism.

The Education Ministry is revising its target so that by 2012, 20 per cent of mainstream secondary teachers will have good knowledge of special needs education.

Its target is now 10 per cent of all primary and secondary school teachers.

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29 Dec 2007, 1:38 pm

There are so many teachers already trained to address the special needs of children and adolescents...the problem is that school
budgets are dictated by state governments...and how much of a burden taxpayers are willing and able to hold.



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30 Dec 2007, 6:56 am

Trained how. Trained like my Special Ed teachers were trained, to always assume that if someone with Asperger's Syndrome was harrassed by other students, it must be the Aspie's fault? Trained to send someone with Dysgraphia (handwriting disability) into a class, that deals almost exclusively with handwriting? Trained to just let a Aspie student get bullied, and look the other way while they clearly show signs of suffering? Yeah..I hold a grudge.


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03 Jan 2008, 1:53 am

By rights, 100% of teachers should be trained in autism and ADHD and NOT to blame the kids everytime something goes wrong.


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03 Jan 2008, 2:08 am

what a joke, all the money usually goes to school administration anyway. if there were were really serious about autism there would add more support, for family crisis, a support system for those thinking about committing suicide. grief canceling, etc. fun education, and more school courses for engineering, computers and game design etc. i wish they would understand that alot of the co exisiting symptoms is based on that. as long as they have boring educational material and leading students to go into careers that there not interest in. autism is gonna grow and all there donators to autism organizations will just end up losing there money for stupid causes. how about for once people send there donations to http://www.bubelaiken.org there actually helping people with autism... and similar conditions. it's about inclusion....